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I have incredible tooth pain rn and I'm not employed and don't have dental insurance. To my knowledge a hospital won't do anything unless it's an emergency. But it's not like I can do much of anything besides attempt to sleep through it and treat it with oral benzocaine and oragel. It's been like this on and off for the last 4 years. I'm so distraught that I'm considering waking into traffic. I hate this and just want to stop existing. Is there anything y'all can recommend? I'm in Pinellas county Florida if that helps. Currently donating plasma and the sodium citrate is seemingly making the pain worse.

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[–] noussommesenmarche@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Not sure if you've looked at this already, Pinellas County Dept of Health has a dental clinic that offers low-cost to free services for the uninsured: https://pinellas.floridahealth.gov/programs-and-services/clinical-and-nutrition-services/dental/index.html. I would reach out to them ASAP. An abscess is no joke and absolutely an emergency- extractions performed in ERs are actually covered by health insurance, so if you've got Medicaid or something similar, they should eventually help pick up the bill if it comes to that.