{"id":79,"date":"2006-08-10T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T23:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/10\/my-brother-needs-advice\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T23:03:49","slug":"my-brother-needs-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"my brother needs advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His dentist says he needs a crown. This is what Songbae wrote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that it&#8217;s going to cost $2,000!\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone have any experience getting<br \/>\none?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s $1,500 for the crown and $500 for the build-up, whatever that<br \/>\nis.\u00c2\u00a0 A filling in one of my molars cracked\/chipped.\u00c2\u00a0 The dentist office<br \/>\nsays insurance usually only covers 50%.\u00c2\u00a0 Place was referred to me by<br \/>\nsomeone in my office.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.\u00c2\u00a0 I should stop chewing ice and flossing more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hate passing up opportunities to give advice, but I honestly know nothing about crowns. Isn&#8217;t it sort of an overgrown filling? A toothcap? Maybe he should go to our childhood dentist, Dr. Newton Chang in Bethesda. That guy knew his stuff, and then both of his sons went to school to become dentists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His dentist says he needs a crown. This is what Songbae wrote: &#8220;And that it&#8217;s going to cost $2,000!\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone have any experience getting one?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s $1,500 for the crown and $500 for the build-up, whatever that is.\u00c2\u00a0 A filling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=79\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teeth-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}