I am in a situation where I too need dental work and although my husband who works (I don't - I'm home with our 3 kids), he's not offered dental insurance and he makes more money than you, not bragging, but it doesn't allow us to afford dental regardless. Dental work is extremely costly for anyone - $9.00, $13.00, especially when you start adding in family members, who should also get dental care on a regular basis. I'm like you where I let things go because I SIMPLY could NOT afford to go to the dentist, and now I'm either going to LOSE all my teeth (already had to have a few pulled) OR I am going to have to find some type of assistance out there that doesn't require you have good credit on top of everything else. There's dental and health care lenders, but without perfect credit, you will be denied. They'll loan you the money (if YOU have good credit, this may be an option for you - $9./hour or not -) known as www.carecredit.com interest free too for the first 12 mos, as long as you do not miss any scheduled monthly payments. After that, it's 11.6 or up interest rates. This is the only lender I know of that specifically deals with DENTAL and health needs. I too would love to know what our country has for folks that need dental care like us, but I"ve found nothing. Nothing that is worth getting - in the end, you're paying out of pocket money to get a dental Plan (not insurance) monthly or yearly, and what they discount isn't worth it at all - you are still looking at say 500.00 for a root canal - with the plan. And so everyone knows who has insurance what we pay who do not, a root canal runs from 700 to 900 depending on the dentist - this is one root canal, one tooth - I like the person I"m responding to want to fix all my teeth and eventually return to "healthy" oral conditions. Right now, I'm going when I can save up the money and am basically getting one tooth worked on every so many months - at this rate, I'll never save the teeth that need saving and probably won't get a bridge so I have a full set of teeth for years to come - You don't want to know what a Bridge runs! (this is partial to what dentures are - the bridge could have 2 top and 2 bottom teeth and you're looking at no less than a grand!) Yes please, if anyone knows of help out there, I'd love to hear about it too! Real help!
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front desk/customer service
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Real Estate Sales and Investing
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