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Steffenfield posted...

@Aristoph

Final cost for this full treatment of yours?

A lot. It was definitely not cheap. I don't remember what it ended up being exactly out of pocket. I think if I had to pay for the entire thing, it would have been around $10k. But I had decent insurance and my parents actually pitched in because of my reason. Only a little bit, though. They offered to pay for the entire thing, but I wouldn't let them. Then I tried to pay them back and they wouldn't accept it. I have an amazing family. My reason for getting them was because my brother had just asked me to be his best man at his wedding, and I actually tried to turn him down because I didn't want to be the only person there who couldn't smile. I didn't want him to remember me standing there looking like I didn't care, or that I wasn't incredibly happy for him.

Like I said, my teeth had a profound affect on my mental health and self-confidence for over 20 years. And I hadn't fully understood just how much until that moment. It was the slap in the face I needed to finally wake up and do something instead of just "dealing with it" like I always had.

And yes it was very expensive and a lot of people less fortunate than myself wouldn't have had that option. Which is why I'm always happy to tell people about it and encourage everyone to do something about it before it gets to that point.