The price of health
Mar. 5th, 2008 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnHave you any idea of the cost (with dental insurance) of getting your wisdom teeth out? It's $931. As if there weren't going to be enough painful extractions on that day. We have the bank balance to cover it easily (although it might shoot, stuff and hang over the mantelpiece any plans we had for a holiday later in the year), but it often seems that this country's government and health system has done nothing but rake more and more money out of me since I started applying to be allowed to set foot in it.
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ethelfleda's comment on the last post becomes much more relevant, as I naively thought that having both medical and dental insurance would be enough to bring it down to a reasonable figure. However, despite the surprise cost, I am still leaning towards being convinced that there is good reason to have them out now, as Dr Fine's opinion was more along the lines of "Get it done here, go to the surgeon in MGH, wherever you like, but whatever you do, get them out". Apparently I could also wait until my entire head becomes infected and then claim it under the medical insurance, but I'd rather do this soon than risk them getting worse and having to endure even more physical pain than necessary.
Overall that visit to the dentist last week didn't go as well as I'd hoped.
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ethelfleda's comment on the last post becomes much more relevant, as I naively thought that having both medical and dental insurance would be enough to bring it down to a reasonable figure. However, despite the surprise cost, I am still leaning towards being convinced that there is good reason to have them out now, as Dr Fine's opinion was more along the lines of "Get it done here, go to the surgeon in MGH, wherever you like, but whatever you do, get them out". Apparently I could also wait until my entire head becomes infected and then claim it under the medical insurance, but I'd rather do this soon than risk them getting worse and having to endure even more physical pain than necessary.Overall that visit to the dentist last week didn't go as well as I'd hoped.
