Decaying Teeth and Treatment Options - Insurance Paid 80% Medical

Good Afternoon All..I'm 34 years old now, I was 24 at time of diagnosis...

I'm new here, so I'll give a back story...April 2005, I was told I had squamous cell carcinoma non melanoma, it was located in my throat, it was a golf

ball size tumor on the right side, the doc went in removed it, sent me home, and a few days later my tonsils started to swell and I had to have those

removed as well. Well the tumor and tonsils were cancerous and we needed to have a treatment plan started, but before radiation and chemo started I had to have 16 teeth moved, so I was left with only my 12 fronts. totally SUCKS !! but hey they left me something...

SO, I had 90 radiation treatments and 10 chemo treatmenst, I was super sick, dropped 50lbs seemed like overnight, had a feeding tube inserted

into my stomach, but I can say I did survive !! I don't know how?? lol - I can only see the humor 10 years out at this point.

OK, so treatment is done and I'm in recovery, Dec 2005, Christmas time and all I wanted was to EAT something/anything - I didn't eat soild food

from 07/2005 to 12/2005 - but somehow I convinced myself and my doctor I was going to eat that Christmas and he removed my feeding tube for me.

I've been shoveling in food ever since - I chew with my fronts only -

Fast Foward to 2010 - 5 years later and my teeth don't look so good !! I see a dentist and my teeth are decaying at an alarming

rate - only 5 years later - so I only have 12 teeth and 5 needed to have root canals and crowns done - yikes and painful - so I had that done,

and did not have any thing else major done.Until this year 2015-2016 - so here we are Nov 2015, I'm told AGAIN, the decay is progessing quicker then anyone thought, so I've got

to have more dental work, this time they do the rest - 7 - root canals and 12 new crowns - so now ALL of what was left of my natural

teeth are GONE - all posts now - and crowns - but they really are beautiful teeth, much better then what I had -  but I was told that in 5-10 years the

rest of what's in my mouth will decay out and I will be left with nothing - no teeth, that will make me anywhere from 39-44 years old - with not a tooth in my head - that's almost too much to take - I'm totally OK with the NEW normal way I've had to eat over the years, I'm OK with have and dry mouth, but I'm not OK with not having teeth - but it could be so much worse  - I do really get that -

Anyone around my age facing to same issue?

Also, I've had the same job the enitre time, so my insurance has covered everything 80/20 split - but I did find out that you can fight it, if they deny it - you've got to have strong doctors behind you to help rebuild - plus I don't take NO for an answer - being a survivior has taught my that

 

May 2016 - I'm a 10 year survivor - HELL YEAH !!! - Love Tish ;-}