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Date Posted: 23:42:31 03/06/10 Sat
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Post 243 A: My Surgery
It has taken me some time to get back on line, for which I do apologize. I just have not had much to say or didn't quite know how to convey it.
My surgery was a D4273 subepithelial connective tissue graft procedure. This is where they cut tissue from the roof of the mouth and graft it around the gum and tooth to add more tissue to receding gum lines. It is some what of a Frankenstein of a procedure. It cost $2503.00. The great BCBS insurance covered $923.76 of it. My wifes dental insurance, Met-Life, covered -0-, nada, as in nothing of it. After the surgery $78.00 was still yet to be paid. Within two weeks of the surgery I started getting billed and called by the Dr.'s admin staff. The Doctor, who earns $500,000.00 a year doing this surgery, wanted his $78.00 from me, and they had yet to even file it on my wifes as the secondary insurance policy. So, within a couple of days I went to his office and paid the bastard in cash.
It's odd that in this country where we have this preconceived idea and we think of or refer to someone as a "toothless moron" we have such a poor excuse for dental insurance.
I guess that at the age of 51 I'm lucky that I'm missing only one tooth. That would be my lower left last molar. I lost it due to a local dentist by the name of Patterson. About fifteen years ago he convinced me that if I didn't have my wisdom teeth cut out they would give me trouble later on in life. He remove one on the lower left. He did such a botched job that it killed the wisdom tooth next to it.
I went to another dentist, Barrilleaux, to have a root canal on the dead tooth. During the procedure he pierced the tooth through and through making a root canal impossible. Leaving as the only option to have the tooth pulled.
P.S. I'm now on facebook.
Well that's all for now.
See you next time.
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