If Only I Had Known Then.....

Remember how excited we got when we discovered that one of our teeth was loose? Woo hoo...that meant that any day, any time that pearly little white would pop out and under our pillow it would go! Well, in my case we put the newly lost tooth in a small glass of water on the kitchen window sill above the sink and in the morning the Tooth Fairy would have left her riches at the bottom of the glass. However you handled the Tooth Fairy in your home is not the point of this blog. My point is this: I think that the Tooth Fairy should have left instructions that we should SAVE every penny that we got for every tooth! Put it in a high interest account and re-invest the earned interest. Why you ask? Well if you have ever had dental work done as an adult then you already know the answer. The Dental Industry is almost as money-hungry as the Oil Industry. The out of pocket cost for dental work from a simple filling to major stuff is ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS!!!! It's no wonder I have suffered for so long with the mouth that I have....it's because I KNEW that I would NEVER be able to pay for the work that I needed done. Now, I have no choice....living with hardly no teeth in your mouth is truly not living at all. Talk about no self esteem...so I took the "plunge" today and went to Western Dental because they are the only people around that will make a payment plan for you...but it still doesn't smell like roses....they slapped me with an outrageous down payment that I have no clue how I'm going to come up with but the monthly payment is managable. So listen up bloggers....sit your little ones down and explain the cold, hard truth about the future of their teeth. Even if they have great teeth it's still gonna cost them at some point in their lives as they get older so.....save, save, save....or pay, pay, pay!!!! Thanks for the venting....