Money, choices, costly decisions.....TEETH

or should I say tooth. So a few months ago, I had a blister like bubble come up on my gum. It went away, came back, left, decided to pop out again and so forth. Never had any pain with it so I got curious. Looked it up on the Internet and seemed to be a abscess in the gum. WOW! Never had one of those before and all I knew was that they were painful. So decided to meet with the dentist to see what is going on. I was going to wait until my 6 month cleaning in Oct but thought it might get worse. Kind of glad I did though.....I guess when they were handing out teeth that I got impatient and didn't collect all of my permanent teeth. I have a few teeth in my mouth that are still baby teeth. These baby teeth aren't small and you couldn't really tell unless you had xrays to see where the roots are much smaller than the permanent ones. So anyways----a nerve has died and the 'dead' tissue around the tooth is infected and is swelling out. Sounds nice, so I am in the chair thinking that I might want to start crying because we might have to pull it. Kind of like you start having pain and the devil tells you it is cancer, kind of like how we always jump to the worse conclusions. So here are my options:

1) pull the tooth, get an implant which more than likely insurance will not cover. The oral surgeon gives FREE consultation but I only believe it is free because of the final bill charge!!! An implant would be a metal piece they would put in my gum and then cap it! For a couple of thousands of dollars - Yes or NO Answer: NO

2) pull the tooth or should I say 'extract the tooth' and place a bridge between the teeth so that my teeth will not start leaning and I could possibly loose the two back jaw teeth. All for the price of me paying out of my pocket $1000. Yes or No Sure, I 'll just pull put the $1000 bill! Umm. Don't think so so the answer is no. Next option.

3) Root canal - OUCH!!! Doesn't sound good, really all of them do not sound good so why me Lord!!! Did you forget that I am still paying on my Guatemalan trip and am eager on going on another trip!! Possibly to bring my husband back home with me!!! It is all for a reason - Right??? Care to feel me in God??? Cause I would like an answer...so the tooth that needs a root canal is baby tooth. Most insurances do not cover root canal on baby teeth because insurance looks at it as you are going to loose the tooth anyways so why bother. I can see their point however I do not have a permanent tooth underneath it so I will be a tooth short and I would die if I had to loose a tooth, or even to have to wear dentures!!! Oh Jesus please help me! So this option is for $208 which is more than I would like to spend but the cheapest. However it seems like we should go this route but because the baby roots are not firmed up like the other roots because they are not long enough. I have always known that since we found out that I was missing some permanent teeth, that these baby teeth can come loose anytime and I will have a whole in my mouth. So should we take the chance of paying $208 and hope that the tooth doesn't come out anytime soon. Dentist can't guarantee that it will happen... CHOICES, Expensive CHOICES!!!

So what would you do??? Kind of complicated because if I pay the two hundred dollars and loose the tooth because it is a baby tooth at the end of the year, I am going to be upset. But I don't want one pulled neither do I want to pay the thousand dollars. With that being said, next Tuesday at 3:00 I will be having my first root canal and I believe I might start crying in the chair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really don't want to have to go through with this!!! It is awful and it is unfair! Please give me some drugs and knock me out til it is time to go back to work!!!