A young woman claimed she had veneers fitted during a nightmare visit to the dentist that was supposedly for a routine root canal.
Caitlyn Weld, 22, posted a viral video of the shocking moment she realized all of her front teeth had been reduced to prepare for false teeth.
As a college student, Weld moved from Tennessee to Florida and went to a new dentist when she learned she had a hole in her tooth and needed a procedure.
Not knowing what to expect, Weld had no idea her teeth were being prepared for cosmetic teeth until it was too late, and she said the dentist told her that was what they assumed she wanted.
“I didn’t have a mirror during the whole process, so I couldn’t see what was going on,” Weld said. Tik Tok‘They literally pulled out my teeth.
Caitlyn Weld, 22, shared the horror story of the dentist who left her with shaved teeth when she went for a root canal.
Weld said the dentist shaved her teeth because he assumed she wanted veneers and she did it because she didn’t know any better.
‘I was scared, so I asked the lady while we were in the room, “What does it feel like to have a root canal? Will it hurt? Can you explain the procedure to me?” But she didn’t speak English very well, so I never found out.
Weld couldn’t believe it when he finally saw his shaved smile, but said he did it because that’s what the dentist had told him to do.
“I was told that the severity of the hole in one of my teeth, where I had the root canal treatment, was so severe that they took precautions to prevent it from recurring in any of my teeth,” he said.
‘(The dentist said) girls my age usually want all their teeth that show to be the same color and they didn’t want one color to be brighter than the rest and they also told me that for the safety of my teeth.
“I was like ‘okay’, I was dumb, I was 18, I had no idea about teeth, so I just went ahead. They made it seem necessary, we didn’t know any different.”
The process of getting permanent veneers was painful, and Weld said she was given uneven temporary ones that had to be filed down so she could eat.
“I remember when they took the temps off and the air hitting what was left was probably the worst pain I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said.
For Weld, getting permanent veneers was painful and she was given temporary veneers that were uneven and had to be filed down so she could eat.
Now, several years later, Weld finally feels comfortable sharing her story and showing off her new smile.
“These are my teeth now, they don’t really look that different than my previous teeth. I feel like they’re a little bit longer, I also bite my gums a lot when I chew, which is something I never used to do,” Weld said.
Weld chose not to identify the dentist because he sees it as a funny story and something he has learned to live with.
Veneers have become more popular in recent years amid a push to achieve a pearly white smile, with nearly 600,000 people receiving them each year.
For veneers, dentists must clean and file teeth before bonding a pearly white coating to the front, which costs up to $4,000 per tooth or $40,000 per smile.