Where should i take my daughter? should i take her to a dentist or the hospital or what?

I am a doctor that works in the emergency room. If you take your child to the ED, they can treat her pain, make sure this decay has not grown into a more serious infection, and connect you with urgent or emergent dental care. You should be able to find a dentist to do the dental work on a payment plan, and if it is that expensive, you probably ought to get a second opinion anyway. Also, she should see a doctor to have the acid reflux addressed, otherwise fixing one tooth will not solve her problem.

Time for a second opinion. Bad teeth can make people very ill, cause diseases, and it must be taken care of. She is a child so I am sure there must be an agency that will help. Sometimes there are free medical clinics where they will give you a referral to a dentist where the state insurance will cover it. I guess it depends what state you are in. Mmm

i would take her in to the ER and explain the situation

If your daughter is in that much pain take her to the ER. Its as simple as that. The dentist should be able to tell you if its' caused by acid reflux. If there is wearing on the back teeth it's do to her esophageal sphincter not having formed correctly during gestation. In layman's terms it doesn't close all the way. Thus allowing HCL to reflux or enter the esophagus. Hospitals cannot refuse to treat patients because of not being able to pay. The other part if she suffers from acid reflux or what we call GERDS Gastroesphogeal Reflux Disease in the medical profession then take her to a Gastroenterologist. It's rare for a child has young as three years old to have GERDS.

Take her to the dentist. The hospital isn't about curing horribly resistant tooth aches. I've had more than my fair share of tooth problems ... they could prescribe a pain medication or give her a better check up. You might look into getting dental coverage instead of saving for the surgery right now so that you can get her pain taken care of. Good luck, I feel her pain ... she'll be okay, just do your best and comfort her. :) You sound like a good parent.

Is there anyways you can get her on medicaid? If you are single and the ex or father isn't providing insurance you may be able to get it...It will cover dental stuff as well. A few years back my ex wasn't providing insurance like he was suppose to so I got medicaid and he had dental surgery where they put him to sleep and did some dental work on his mouth...This is just one option... You can also go to or call the ER and ask to speak to someone about assitance in paying for services rendered, most hospitals offer help to people in need, or they can help you find assistance.

If you take her to the er and its bad enough they may to the surgery and just bill you, hospitals often set up payment plans if you can't afford to pay the bill all at once, good luck to you and your daughter.

ask the doctor if its safe to give her some kind of pain reliever such as anbesol gel that should help her with the pain and getting to sleep. do a search and post some adds looking for dentists that do pro-bono work. Does the tooth need to be removed or does she have to have a procedure to correct the acid reflux. If the later maybe the er can do something but if it is with the tooth itself they will probably be no help.

if the pain is uncontrollable and not being relieved with children's motrin or tylenol then yes-take her in to the er (especially if she's waking up from it) i would imagine that if this is urgent enough-they will go ahead and perform the surgery at the hospital to correct the problem and since this is keeping her awake at night-i would certaintly get it looked at right away. check with your state health department about gettting free medical coverage for your little one (they will cover dental as well). all states are required to have it. there might even be free clinics you can take her to. there is someone at the hospital that can help you fill out the paperwork needed to get the free insurance. i pray that everything works out for you and your little one-it's so hard to see our children suffering and not being able to do anything about it.