The Dentist is not my friend!!

I went for a cleaning this morning and everything seemed good. I was like wow, my new power toothbrush is doing it's work until she got to my lower left back tooth and holy hell I felt like she stabbed me in the gums with that pick thing. I thought I was going to faint and I'm glad I was sitting down because all I could smell was blood and my head felt it was going to explode. Whatever she did hurt like hell and lucky I'm a nice person because if I wasn't I would of grabbed that pick and stabbed her with it. So the reason it hurt like hell because I have a broken filling and a cavity which was hidden by the gum line. So my Dentist came over to look it over and said some Dentist mumbo jumbo I had no clue on what he was talking about but all I got was it needed to be fixed as soon as possible or it would cost me more to fix it if I wait longer so I was okay get to it. Well I got the estimate to fix this tooth and here I was already lightheaded, my mouth hurt and I had this major headache and I was told how much this one tooth was going to cost me. $446.00!!!! For the love of all things holy. Like I can afford to get that tooth fixed. Do they think I'm made of money? That's two months of my daughters pre-school tuition. That's around a month of my families grocery bill. That's a hell of a lot of money. So we're looking at our finances tonight and we're going to figure out where to get the money. I've been saving my money for a family trip this year. I had plans but what can I do? The tooth needs to get fixed and I could pull it and it would cost much cheaper but I can't be pulling out my teeth because I can't afford to get them fixed. I'm in shock! I feel so sick over a tooth. Maybe I should put my feet up and breath. Good lord, it's crazy how much the Dentist costs. Is it okay to cry over a tooth? Take care, Peace!!!