<prompt> Human: I am a college student that works during the summer time. My mom lives in another state and loves me very much. We had worked out a deal in which she helps me out with rent which I found a room at 300 a month while I am in college and I use student loans to pay for the classes. She grew up in a poor country in which going to dentist was not a regular thing for most people. She use to have really bad teeth but fixed them now. She insisted I go to the dentist for a checkup.I went to a checkup a couple of months ago and the dentist found A LOT of cavities. Fair enough. There were 2 major one and a couple minor ones. I had 4 appointments. My mom insisted that she pay for all these appointments. If it were me, I would have just had work done on the 2 major ones, granted of my situation.The last appointment I have went to, the dentist schedualed me for another appointment. He said he was going to replace metal the metal fillings. He got the metal instrument that dentists usually uses and pressed down on the metal filling. It was painful. He said see, it needs to be replaced. I told him that it was painful because of the electrical conductivity, he said it wasnt because of that.My mom called me today crying and telling me she doesnt have money and lost one of her jobs she has another one and 2 houses that she receives income from. All of our dentist bills are on the credit card and I told her I need one class that I need to pay the credit card with I have been working and I contribute to the payments sometimes. She insists I still go to the dentist even though I told her of my suspicions.Please help me Reddit. If you were me or my mom and did not have money, would you still go to the dentist a 5th time to do somethat that can wait? How can I convince my mom to not even bother doing this? I called the dentist and they say there are cavities under the filling. I dont know if they are hyping these cavities. They say I could wait 2-3 months.Another important question: Has anyone went outside of a dentists adviced and let cavities go?  <response>: If you dont trust the dentist youve been seeing, find a different one for a second opinion. If you live near a dental college, you can likely see a dentist in training at a discount. 