An Australian woman has issued a stark warning after travelling overseas to undergo cheap dental surgery before her teeth began to rot and “fall out”.
Kim Edwards, a 45-year-old from Sydney, flew to Turkey, the mecca of cheap cosmetic surgery, and paid $30,000 for a facelift and veneers.
Ms Edwards returned to Australia when the bridge became infected and was close to necrosis.
Things take time to settle and heal, but they hadn’t even touched my nose and teeth, this is disgusting, but I could smell them rotten,’ she said. Yahoo.
The 45-year-old was forced to spend another $80,000 to get her teeth fixed at home, prompting her to share an urgent warning for anyone thinking of travelling abroad.
“It’s a complicated situation. Instagram is a fraud, TikTok is a fraud,” he said.
“Everything is leaked. It’s all lies. I try to keep my friends and my stuff from finding out.”
Ms Edwards had extensively researched clinics in Turkey before settling on one that had a 4.9 star rating.
A woman who paid more than $100,000 for veneers at a clinic in Turkey was left stunned after she had the wrong type of surgery and they fell off a month later (file image)
Instead of having her teeth filed down short and covered with a row of porcelain teeth, Ms. Edwards had dental bridges placed.
The most practical way to replace teeth is through bridges that fill the gaps by anchoring a false tooth to its real counterpart.
Ms Edwards’ problems continued to grow after she returned home to Sydney, when her new teeth began causing infections because she found them difficult to clean.
He was then shocked about a month later when one of the bridges “fell” out of his mouth while he was eating lunch.
Ms Edwards tried to contact the Turkish clinic to find out how to fix the problem, but was blamed for not cleaning them properly.
After pressing them again for answers, she said they “washed their hands” of her and blocked Ms Edwards on Instagram.
Running out of options, Ms Edwards turned to Dental Boutique, a cosmetic dentistry clinic in central Sydney.
The clinic’s senior dentist, Dr Ben Hargreave, said the woman’s teeth had been “massacred”.
A Sydney dentist who came to the woman’s aid said the Turkish clinic had removed a shocking amount of natural tooth structure, which he described as a “massacre”.
She said Turkish dentists had removed a shocking amount of tooth structure during surgery, which would not have happened if she had stayed in Australia.
Another 12-hour surgery at the clinic to remove Ms Edwards’ bridges was followed by a year of wearing dentures to allow her gums to heal.
Finally, 18 months later, Ms. Edwards received the veneers she initially requested.
Now she urges others not to fall for the same social media trends she did.