My Story

My story starts in 2022. I was getting ready to move out of state. A few days before I was going to move, the left side of my face started to swell. I went to the dentist, where they asked me what I wanted to do. I replied, "Remove the tooth, please." The dentist kept trying to get me to keep the tooth and do a root canal, which I didn't want to do. I explained to him that I didn't have time to do that and that I needed to move. Several weeks later, I got the authorizations, and he finished the root canal. I kept complaining of ongoing soreness and a bump on my gums. He gaslighted me and told me everything was healing fine. I flew to my new place to live, now with less money, in May of 2022. The crowns he did were breaking, and the root canal tooth was throbbing and causing issues. I decided to fly back after only one month, since I had no insurance, just to fix the tooth and come back. He was still gaslighting me, telling me everything was fine. The dentist used a scare tactic to frighten me into getting the tooth next to the one that was hurting to get a root canal. He told me, "You don't want this causing the same issues as the other one." I reluctantly agreed to do another root canal.

Root Canal

Tooth #14 was still bothering me, so he decided to do the one next to it. Another dentist in his office started the root canal. The entire time, he never took one x-ray to see if he was positioning the files correctly in the canals. He was aggressively drilling into the canal, and something happened, and he stopped before the root canal was finished. He told me to get pain medication and that I needed to go on antibiotics. I said I never had to before and that the tooth wasn't infected. He said, "You probably will need it this time." As I was walking home, I was wiping what I thought was regular sinus drainage from my nose. I looked at my hand, and it was blood! When I got home, I leaned over to tie my shoes, and a bunch of bleach-smelling fluid and blood poured out of my left nostril, the same side as the root canal tooth. I frantically called the office; they didn't want me to come back in. It was a Friday, and the doctor said maybe I scratched my nose! This is when the gaslighting began. Since then, in 2022, every time I drink water, I can feel it going into my sinuses. I've seen probably over 40 dentists and specialists. Many have said it's a sinus perforation of the root tip. Some want to fix it, but it will cost money, and my crappy insurance won't pay for the repairs. The bone graft material and scans are not covered!

After Root Canal

Months went by; the dentist continued to gaslight me and never took responsibility or offered to fix the issue. I have been left to fend for myself. I have yet to raise any money to repair this issue.

Extraction

Tooth #14, the original root canal tooth, had to be removed because the scan I got showed there was a bad infection. This is the tooth I wanted removed originally. I ended up losing my apartment in my other state and was stranded in Los Angeles, the place I was trying to move from. All my savings were gone, and I was left with major sinus and dental issues. I have no family I communicate with, and all my friends don't have any money to help me out.

More Dental Issues Arise

While I was dealing with the sinus perforation, I decided to eat some gummy candies. A crown I had had in for over 10 years came out while I was eating the candy. I thought they would just glue it back in. I went to another dentist down the street and gave her the crown to glue in. I left it on the counter and went to the restroom. This crown was not broken when I entered the dental office. The dentist glued the crown in, and then when she told me to bite on the cotton for a few seconds, I heard a crack. She said everything was fine, and I went home. The next day, I ate an ice cream; the crown cracked in half, and a big chunk broke off, leaving a sharp piece of Zirconia crown left. I went back to the dentist, and she told me she refused to remove the broken crown and made me wait for weeks with this thing cutting the inside of my mouth. During this time, I started developing an allergy to what I thought was the cement. My throat was very dry and itchy; she gaslighted me and didn't care. She tried submitting for 4 crowns; I only wanted that one replaced. She refused and forced me to do two. I reluctantly agreed to the second one. She put in the crowns weeks later, and after a few days, I developed severe allergy symptoms with white blisters forming in my mouth. The dentist gaslighted me for weeks and one day decided to remove them and replace them; we thought it was a cement allergy. She said she would remove them and replace them. After she removed them, she put two temporaries on, and then she said, "You need to go somewhere else. I'm deleting your authorizations." I was mortified. No one likes to finish other people's work. I spent months trying to get other dentists to take me on as a patient.

Allergy Issues

Over two years since dealing with the sinus perforation and now dealing with having two additional teeth with temporaries, I get rejected by almost all dentists because I have an unknown allergy to either one of the metal crowns or cements. I even got an allergist to work with me, and he just needed samples to test, but most dentists refused to cooperate and said, "You take the metal crowns allergic or not, or go somewhere else." I spent months, and finally got a dentist to give me some samples. The allergist found out I was allergic to Nickel and other dental materials. The skin on my back swelled for almost a month. I even had another dentist refuse to work with the allergist after they recommended a metal crown. I went through hell with this guy too, a lot of gaslighting about my symptoms; eventually, he had to remove that one crown he did too. I also spent the last of my savings on a blood test to test me for all dental materials, over $11,000. It turns out I developed an allergy to a lot of materials with metal, including some cements and resins. I honestly feel these allergies formed from my body being traumatized by the major pain and issues from the ongoing sinus perforation and the way I was treated by all these dentists.

I left out a lot of bad experiences with being passed back and forth from ENTs and dentists just to save time. Most dentists don't like patients with allergies. They would rather let a patient suffer than try to work with them. Recently, I had a dentist yell and scream at me for not wanting to get over $5000 in dental work done. I told him I had no money; he didn't care and had zero empathy. I'm broke, traumatized, I have two temporary crowns still on, one of my teeth with a sinus perforation needs to be repaired with a bone graft. I suffer from facial pain from the perforation daily. Drinking water is painful because it creates pressure changes in my sinuses and gets water into my sinus cavities. I have a proof page where I uploaded some of the repairs that need to be done. Priority for me right now is replacing the two temporaries and getting the hole fixed in my sinuses. Ideally, I want to go to one of the dentists associated with the allergy test place. They are holistic and work with people with allergies. The problem is they are more expensive and charge over $400 just for the visit. I'm desperate and need help. Feel free to email me with words of encouragement, and if you can donate, I would be more than thankful.