Root canals and porcelain crowns would have ran me about four times what extractions and fakes would have cost with about an eight year outlook. It was more financially feasable to just do away with them. I was not blessed with good dental health, unfortunately. I fucked up in my early twenties by spending all my cash on drugs and neglecting my dental health. Sleep grinding, sugary drinks, a toungue piercing, and bad inherited enamel was the death of my teefs. On top of that, when my wisdoms came in, they came in at an angle and pushed my other teeth against each other further complicating things. Instead of seeing a dentist, i would just pop about nine ibuprofen and deal with the pain. If I could rewind time, I would have definitely done things differently, but my shit has been brittle since I was a kid. My dad and sister's grills also fell apart at an early age.