I am going to bite the bullet soon and get a temporary tooth where my molar was pulled out almost two years ago.
It is the second to last molar, and although it is way in the back, you can still see the void when I make a large smile. I don’t want to stop smiling, but I also don’t want to look like an aged pirate, so I am going to go get a temporary tooth put in till I can afford to buy a real implant. I don’t know what implants cost however they aren’t cheap as my HVAC tech friend told me. I think he spent like $2K for an implant, which is way out of my price range right now with my money all locked in this HVAC technology stock. I could wait another year or two however if I keep waiting I’ll never get one and will be a single toothless man. My Mom, who was also a heating dealer, had the same tooth missing although he was also married and it didn’t matter to him. But being single is a weird story and missing a tooth could be a red flag to a potentially charming guy. I will go to the current business and ask him where he got his work done, and hopefully my HVAC worker savings will be enough to cover it down the road if it isn’t way out of my league. I just don’t want to be distraught about smiling and scaring people away because I look like a homeless man or something.