 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Hope you do better with your insurance than I did with mine. Medical paid to pull them but it would not pay anything towards partials or implants. I'd get it all cleared and in writing before I started unless you can afford to pay for it yourself.
After Brian's explanation, I too think I'll stick with my partials. I have seen the hyperbaric chamber at Penn and no way do I want so spend any time in that. The sight of it was what convinced me to let them extract my back teeth in the first place. The dentist there kept saying I would have to spend 2 hours a day for 30 days in that thing if I ever needed to have a tooth extracted. No thanks.
Eileen
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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