Human Rights and Torture

[MrFun]

Yesterday, I had a dental emergency while on lunch at work. All of a sudden, I had sharp pain in one of my lower right teeth. A couple years ago, I had a root canal done under general sedation or anethesia because regular dentists were unable to numb my lower jaw's nerves to be able to do the damn root canal. But the stupid oral surgeon refused to do the crown in addition to the root canal.

Since then, I have had a completed root canal with no crown put on yet. You try finding an oral surgeon who has anethesia, who is willing to do the stupid crown procedure.

So I left work yesterday on this emergency, and went straight to my regular dentist worried that I had cracked or broken my root canal tooth. But after taking x-rays, they could not see anything obviously wrong. But the dentist reccomends that I get a crown done ASAP anyway. Meantime, I have prescription medicine for any recurring pain I may have with this tooth along with antibiotics to prevent any possible infection.

Since human torture is supposedly a violation of international law and basic human rights, how am I suppose to get this stupid crown done?
Don't get me started on whenever I've had to get a cavity or two done on any of my teeth in my lower jaw in the past . . . .

[loinburger]

Have all your teeth pulled and get dentures, problem solved.

[rah]

Hmm, a root canal should kill all feeling in the tooth so why would you need anything to have it worked on?

[MrFun]

Trust me. Regular dentists back when I was living in Illinois tried twice to use novacaine or other local anethesics and they could not numb the surrounding nerves to do the crown. I could not sit through the procedure without jerking around to get the crown done.

Like I said, this is an unusual situation/condition.

[chequita guevara]

Then you need to be knocked out.

[Berzerker]

is it safe?

[JEELEN]

(You shoud be glad you even have a dentist - it's not a Human Right to have one...)

[SlowwHand]

Dentists isn't a new profession, or even exclusive to where he lives. The techniques are different.

Go stand over there in the corner and laugh.

[rah]

I had a root canal done without anything. (the nerve was dead)
The second one, was different.

[MrFun]

(You shoud be glad you even have a dentist - it's not a Human Right to have one...)

Human right to be free from torture, GENIUS.

[MrFun]

Then you need to be knocked out.

Alright, fly up here and give me a really good concussion. I figured I haven't offered anything in a long time to make you happy.

[Riesstiu IV]

What about the basic human right to torture those you don't like?

[MrFun]

You ain't touching me, Ries.

[MrFun]

On a happier note, I have found an oral surgeon who has anethesia AND they do crowns. I have a consulting appointment on Tuesday. Since my dentist insurance will not cover anethesia for an office procedure like this, I have to figure out how I'm going to pay the $1,500 or so for the anethesia part.

I wonder if I can call my medical insurance to ask if they can cover the anethesia part, while my dentist insurance covers the crown part?