Blood will Flow

It's a long story but basically I had a dentist who had great references, but who left me with 3 troublesome crowns. Just over a year later, a new dentist recommended a fix for two of them, but it led to pain instead and needing root canals and finally one being extracted when the root canals failed. I thought I would need a bone graft and implant too, but that specialist wasn't greedy at least and said since it was the last tooth in the back, I could do without one. Then, shortly after that, one of those new crowns, plus the final third crown broke (both hardly lasted as long as one I had since a kid). I don't know. It just feels like my gums have been stabbed with a needle a million times. It took me too long to realize don't do dental work unless you *absolutely* need to. I was young and naive and had just started making my own money with that first dentist and I let him talk me into "better" (no mercury!) and "nicer" looking teeth. Ugh, sorry to unload. My decisions on this have haunted me for years.