I now live in Canada & hate the dental bills. Spend thousands each year even with dental coverage. My daughter had damaged teeth when she was a toddler from acid reflux, cost $4200 & cover only paid $2000. Kids there are free, that’s how it should be here. When I first moved here I had no cover at all & needed 2 fillings & 1 root canal. It was cheaper to pay for a flight back there for 2 weeks, see my family, go to NHS dentist, pay the fee and spend a couple hundred on whatever then return.
Anyway, could you not have gone to the emergency dental hospital (NHS)?. Colleges also do cheap dental, they are in training but for ripping teeth out it is a good option.
Jazzee