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user-inactivated  ·  1680 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 18, 2019

I got a wisdom tooth removed monday morning. I tried to get my previous dentist to do it eight years ago when I still had insurance, and again five years ago when I was still flush with Norwegian money but they wanted to "wait and see if it corrects itself". Now I don't have dental insurance, and the surgery that they promised me in april would be done before the summer was postponed until now. I was pretty bitter about it going in, but it turns out prescription painkillers dulls the pain post-surgery and the pain of wrestling with Vray and Photoshop all day on my university's underpowered computers.





user-inactivated  ·  1679 days ago  ·  link  ·  

who knows how it works in other countries but check your non-dental insurance, it may have generic surgical coverage that includes wisdom teeth

no one told me this so i almost didn't use it when i was in a similar situation

user-inactivated  ·  1678 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I took another look at my receipt and apparently the social insurance agency paid for roughly half of it. I still had to pay almost €400, but it feels a bit embarrassing to complain about healthcare costs among Americans...

kingmudsy  ·  1678 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    ...it turns out prescription painkillers dulls the pain post-surgery and the pain of wrestling with Vray and Photoshop all day on my university's underpowered computers.

Don't know what they've got you on, but I tried programming while on hydrocodone the other day. It went...poorly. Hope the creative part of our brains function a little nicer on the meds, for your sake :)