Can someone please explain to me the point of dental insurance that doesn’t cover standard maintanance? I have a DHMO plan — and maybe that’s the problem? I haven’t had a chance to dig really deep into it yet. But this plan doesn’t cover cleanings or simple fillings or, apparently, regular checkups(?!), much less extensive treatment. That seems just the slightest bit stupid to me. Why do I have it at all?

In the past two…

…er…or is that the other way around?

So over the weekend, we had some purple-dreaded-halfling-ninja fun, along with kinda miserable loneliness, with a face-rending toothache chaser.

And by “face-rending,” I mean I had a root canal yesterday. My dental insurance only covered about 1/6 the cost, and it was not cheap. I wasn’t sure what I thought would give me more nightmares last night, the sound and sensation of having my face drilled at for five…