Afraid of losing my son

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They are. But if she goes to a hospital that accepts Kieser insurance, she will only have a small co-pay rather than a huge bill.

They do have to treat you at an ER in the US, but that doesn't mean it's free.

Tylenol isn’t as good for tooth pain as Ibuprofen.It’s the inflammation that’s causes the pain and Tylenol doesn’t help with that.If you can get him to use oral pain relief gel, it also helps.
Go to the emergency room if you can’t get into a dentist for antibiotics.
Good luck.

I called the dentist office and I told them he had a tooth abscess and it was affecting his sleep and school and it appeared about three days after his appointment. I was hoping they would call Keiser and tell them this so they can maybe get him in sooner and they prescribed him an antibiotic. I came in and picked up his prescription after my kids finished school that day and I took it to the Kaiser pharmacy and they gave me two bottles of it. My son is doing better now after I had started giving it to him.

It's his baby tooth premolar that is infected. The puss just drains out through his tooth so that is good. I would rather have it drain through the decay than have it get bigger and bigger. It also pops too and he says it feels very weird after he started taking the antibiotic. He says it still hurts but I think the pain is milder where he can tolerate it without him whining about it and being listless.

Funny enough I had one above my tooth that had the root canal done. It didn't hurt because that part of my mouth is dead because of no nerves there. That molar I have that got badly infected when I was a child, it got drilled and had a filling and not once had that tooth ever hurt and when the filling came out, I went to the dentist and they seemed confused that it wasn't hurting me. Then they did a little test and told me that tooth was dead. That was the same year I had the root canal done after my filling came off but it took me a couple months for the appointment to be set and I bared with the hole in my tooth since it didn't hurt. It was just a dark hold.

I have no idea how that tooth of mine never hurt when it got infected and when it got infected again when I was an adult and I read online that dead teeth are also painful because of nerves in your mouth. I guess I was just lucky.

I just kept popping my abscess and it also felt strange. I just used my thumb nail and popped it by pressing hard on it. Now I haven't seen any abscess there in a while and it's been years since I last saw one there. I would just pop it anytime I saw a bubble there.

I honestly wish my son could experience this so it wouldn't be painful.

If it's a baby tooth, and it's causing the abscess, why can't they just extract it? He's 9 years old. I'm pretty sure that premolar is due to come out soon, anyway. That's about when I lost my baby premolars.

I'm not criticizing anybody for not extracting it----let me emphasize that. There is a notion in present-day dentistry that extraction of a tooth (especially a permanent tooth) should only be done as a last resort.

What’s the cost of a tooth extraction waiting for insurance to do it?

What’s the cost to just pay privately?

If you pay in full Now to get it done w/o waiting, can you submit the receipt to your insurance company for reimbursement?

Some things shouldn’t wait if they don’t have to.

As you well know, medical treatment and dental treatment can be quite expensive. An extraction can possibly be a few hundred dollars. If people are living on a budget, these people probably can't spare a hundred, or a few hundred dollars, unfortunately. Dental insurance sucks in the US, for the most part. I'm lucky I have good dental insurance.

Sometimes, insurance companies will reimburse without too much problems----especially if the dental assistant has a good relationship with some insurance company. If a person freelances it, it sometimes is very difficult to get reimbursed. I'm also lucky I've been to dentist who have good dental assistants who have a relationship with insurance companies.

I am sure LeagueGirl is trying her best in this instance. It's not easy out there. Please note that I know you mean well. This is not a criticism of the previous post.

Wow. Here, for not complicated cases, it's typically about 200 zł, which is $50

I googled and the price ranges from $75-650usd for tooth extractions - the high end being for more complicated surgical work.

If it can be reimbursed later, spend the $ now. If it can’t be reimbursed later But it’s nearer the low end than the high, maybe it’s worth spending the $ now anyways.

If it’s a matter of a couple hundred bucks that can’t be worked into a family budget w/o a crushing interest rate, I happen to know a fish who would finance it at 0% over a year or two if necessary. I’ve already dropped a couple grand in COVID-19 related donations to locals, and extended some small loans to others. Children shouldn’t suffer like that due to a lack of a few dollars in the budget Now.

I don’t just mean well with a suggestion of “just pay for it.” If it makes sense to pay for it now and be reimbursed later Or to pay for it now and pay it off over time I will gladly front the money - far more helpful than telling someone to just pay for something they maybe can’t afford/can’t justify an exorbitant interest rate etc.

THAT’S why I inquired as to the costs involved.

Doctors and dentists generally don't charge interest.....imagine if they did??????

I had to pay $65 for my extraction a couple of years ago----and that was a co-pay because I have DC-37 Dental Insurance.

Alternatively, or in addition, she could fund raise for it.

Yesterday a local woman posted in our covid 19 Vancouver fb page that she was “selling cards,” from a deck as a 50/50 draw to pay for her daughter’s dental appointment. $10 per card (jokers for sale, too) and she writes you name on the card(s) you chose and take a pic and send it. Once all the cards are sold (52 + 2 jokers I think = $540) she’ll shuffle the deck and someone will draw a card. Winner takes half, she keeps the $270 to pay for the dentist. I bought 2 cards.

With dozens of active users on this site alone we could maybe come up with $10 a piece and have a card raffle. Just a thought.