Am 23 year old female with good health. I still have all 4 wisdom teeth. The morning of 8/5 at 3am I woke up with a mouth full of blood from one of my wisdom teeth, the one that has given me plenty of issues. Immediately, I googled my options. Aspen Dental came up and had an open appointment at 11am that morning. They took me earlier, which was fine. They did X-Rays and a consultation. At the end they said I had 8 Cavities and Advanced Periodontal Disease. So out of curiousity, and knowing nothing about that subject I asked "what role does that play with my wisdom tooth that is bleeding", they said "you definitely need to take those out soon", which I understand. They told me that it was highly important for me to get and SRP asap, so that my teeth don't fall out. Now to any eye, my teeth look healthy. I went through with this SRP and they implanted Arestin into my gums, only on the right side. All of this totaled $2,384 dollars, and did not include the primary reason for going".
This is where my frustration comes in! Today I went to get a second opinion because, my wisdom teeth are still in tact and I now have flapping gums and things that I have never experienced. This denstist said, my bones where all the way up to my teeth and that I have gingivitis not Periodontal Disease. No one at Aspen was a Periodontist. Now I have a right side that is bleeding in my mouth, gums flapping around, and the fear that the original problem will come up again as it had not been solved. They put a total of 27 Arestin just on the right side of my mouth, each Arestin costing $37 costing $1000:. They did not do a deep cleaning, or anything else:. The total bill mentioned above. Lets just say that, this is not the end, thankfully I have strong healthy teeth, with gums that could be worked on and will be seeing a real dentist once this heals.
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