Complete Frustration

A few days ago, I developed a sore spot under my bottom partial dental plate and had to take it out to let it heal. Some how two days later I found that it was bent and a crack was in the metal part that attached to my four remaining teeth. I had it in my pocket and so I sat on it or some other ridiculous accident happened to cause this crack.  I ate like a rabbit for a day and smiled carefully before I decided I needed to find a denturist to see if it could be fixed and how much? Now at home a denturist is very easy to find....Phone Pratt or Plaza Denture Clinic ..... I went to the yellow pages and not a denturist listed in Casa Grande. Oh yes 7 pages of dentists but it said they did denture repairs. I closed my eyes and picked one, made a phone call and had an appointment at 3:15. They said to fill out the paper work on line and that would speed things up. I did and printed it off to take with me.
I found the big building in the Walmart lot that yelled "RICH" entered and was told that there were 3 more pages to fill in.....ok??? I had to answer every medical history question you could imagine from was I nursing? to every surgery I might have had, every drug I had taken in the last year to height, weight and how many pimples on my butt....well not really the last one, but they might as well have asked.....
I was soon called in and taken to a small room where I was told to hang my purse on a hook way up high.....I said "WHY" ? She said "so you can go stand in front of the x-ray machine for your x-rays".....I replied  "You have to be kidding?" She said "No ..you are a new patient and must have x-rays but they are free the first time."  I said "I am here to have my dental plate looked at to see if it can be fixed and I do not believe in x-rays unless they are for a medical problem I am dealing with....."
She said "I will go talk to the office manager" She came back and told me to go have a chair and he would be out to talk to me. After 10 mins he came out and said in a stern Mafia type voice "So I hear you do not want an x-ray?" I said "you are right. I phoned and asked if I could have my dental plate looked at to see if it could be fixed." He said the only way to do that is to be made a patient first with x-rays and dental check up , cleaning etc and then they would assess my plate. I said "That is pure Bull shit and absolutely ridiculous. I came to have a piece of plastic in my purse looked at and not to have a medical procedure on my body." He said "well you will not find a place in town that is just a dental lab and so Good bye"... I said $#^%$#@@,  No,  I didn't but if I was a swearing woman..I am sure I would have.......     I left very frustrated and did what any fat woman would do....I went and bought an ice cream cone...
We are so lucky to live in Canada where universal health care is free and never have to be asked if we have insurance etc and where medical people do not rule the government..... Go Obama...fix America...I know you can......
I can not even imagine having to pay the high premiums Americans do for medical insurance, and having to think about cost when it comes to medical procedures like doctor visits, x-rays, surgery, birth of babies, MIR's,  fixing broken bones etc.  We are so advanced over the US when it comes to health....

So after that rant. back to my dental plate and what I did..after the ice cream....I went to Walmart and bought crazy glue and put it on the crack. I washed it good this morning and put into my mouth not sure if it would poison me or what.    Now the next thing is to drive 2 hours and go to Mexico and get a new plate in a few hours for cheap..... Just to find a free day to do that.........