More time and money I don't want to spend

[ppfuf]

Damn. I had my twice-yearly dental cleaning this morning. My old dentist has moved to Washington. He left his practice to a new dentist (arg! he looks like he's 20!) who I saw for the first time today. He seemed pleasant, competent, thorough, and has small hands; something I appreciate in a dentist.
But being young, he's a techie and distrusting of old technologies. Apparently, some of my 20 year old dental work is no longer up to snuff. And I should get a one of those swanky new electric toothbrushes, and fancy new mouthwash. Sigh. I knew this day was coming, but I had been hoping to put it off a year or two. Actually, I do get to put some of it off until next year, as everything he wants to do is going to overrun my dental insurance's maximum output. The patient manager is going to call me this afternoon with a two-year plan. Maybe I'll just stay in denial and let the call go to voice mail. This is the sucky part of adulthood.

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[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Gak. for good or ill, I'm not a good candidate for any of the current eye surgeries.
Didn't you have a coding problem with your dentist recently? How did that end?

[allison-is.livejournal.com]

In a financially painful encounter for my family. They said they told me - what they said was that they would have to put new posts in. Not that they would be unable to bill insurance the same way. So they got their money and I got one last cleaning before I left for Germany.

Thankfully I'm just a half-adult in that matter. My dad said he'd pay for it since he thought the insurance would take care of it.