Ok, here's my situation: I'm a 20 year old male and I'm currently unemployed at the moment. I need some type of free health insurance and I know free money is out there somewhere. I can't get on my mom's health insurance plan because I'm not enrolled in college right now. The reason I temporarily need some free health insurance is because I have this really bad tooth abscess in my teeth and it's been bugging me for awhile. My mom took me to a dental clinic and the dentist ending up telling me I needed a root canal because the roots have gotten infected in the tooth, but they are charging me like crazy and I think a root canal is like 1,000 something dollars. My mom tells me to get it pulled because it's cheaper but the dentist told me my teeth could shift on me If I had that process done and I didn't want that. I know there's a way I can get a discount or something. I called for one for those green cards for unemployed residents at our local Outpatient Clinic here, but they are closed on the weekends. This abscess is really bothering me and it keeps coming back because I don't have the hole in my tooth closed up and the roots are constally getting infected. I take out some of the infection by guggling my mouth with warm salt water everyonce in awhile. It takes down the swelling but only for a short month or so. I was even subscibed some antibiotics but I feel uncomfortable swallowing pills so they gave me 3 shots in the booty (2 shots of antibiotic fluid and 1 shot for the pain). And when I do TRY to take antibiotic pills, I just chop them up and swallow them that way (childhood memories: I choked on a butterscotch candy when I was little). The temporary filling they put in didn't last for too long. It fell out after I bit down on a dorito chip. So what do I do? I live in Columbus, Georgia and I just wanted to know if there was a way I could beat around the bush from paying 1,000 dollars for a root canal when I'm currently unemployed. I'm looking for professional detailed answers only, not no: "just go to the dentist" mess, I know that. So please spare me or you the time! It would really help If I got some answers from real Dentist or someone who knows alot about Finance & Health Insurance. ^_^ I would REALLY appreciate your help! Thanks.
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OK, free health insurance is called Medicaid - welfare health insurance. They won't pay for a root canal - they'll only pay for an extraction - which, btw, would cost around $100, even without insurance. Medicaid, the household income counts, not just YOUR income. There's no free dental insurance that pays for a root canal. Even with dental insurance that you buy, it rarely pays for half the cost of a root canal. If you have your heart set on a root canal, instead of just having the tooth pulled, you can probably find a dentist to make payment arrangements.
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