Looks like somebody needs a better job with dental benefits if you ask me. Because what this comes down to is not wanting to pay for the extraction. This isn't like the cancer stuff where you claim that they just perpetuate the problem and keep you on meds for the money or to keep the peasants downtrodden or whatever excuse. I see no claim that extracting the tooth is actually bad for you, right? So why not just have it fucking surgically cut out? The only reason I'm seeing is cost, which shouldn't be an issue if you're still making big bucks at online poker. Or is that not how you make your money anymore?
I'm sure you manually keeping food out of it is totally good enough to prevent an infection though. And even if you did start to get one, you're killing the nerves that would let you know it was hurting again so it might be too late by the time you realize you're fucking dying. So good luck with that! Don't let Big Dentistry keep you down!