I lost more than $100,000 after making a bad decision in Turkey… this is the social media trend I wish I never knew about
An Australian woman has issued a stark warning after she flew overseas to undergo a cheap dental procedure before her teeth began to rot and ‘fell out’.
Kim Edwards, 45, from Sydney, flew to Turkey, the mecca for cheap cosmetic surgery, and paid $30,000 for a facelift and veneers.
Mrs Edwards returned to Australia when the bridge became infected and was close to necrosis.
“It takes a while to heal and recover, but they haven’t even touched my nose or my teeth. This is disgusting, but I could smell the rotting odor,” she said. Yeah.
The 45-year-old had to spend another $80,000 at home to get her teeth fixed, which is why she’s warning anyone considering moving abroad.
“It’s just a questionable situation. Instagram is a fraud, TikTok is a fraud,” she said.
“Everything is filtered. It’s all lies. I’m trying to keep my friends and things from getting through.”
Ms Edwards had thoroughly researched the clinics in Turkey before choosing one with a 4.9 star rating.
A woman who paid more than $100,000 for veneers at a clinic in Turkey is stunned after she had the wrong surgery, which fell out a month later (stock image)
Instead of filing her teeth down to short points and covering them with a row of porcelain teeth, Mrs. Edwards got bridges.
The most practical way to replace teeth is with a bridge. This fills gaps by attaching a fake tooth to the real tooth.
Mrs Edwards’ problems continued to worsen after she returned to Sydney. Her new teeth began to develop infections because she could not clean them properly.
About a month later, she went into shock when one of the bridges “fell” out of her mouth while she was eating lunch.
Mrs Edwards tried to contact the Turkish clinic to ask how she could solve the problem, but was blamed for not cleaning her teeth properly.
After she again demanded answers, they said they “washed their hands of her” and blocked Ms Edwards on Instagram.
With no other options left, Ms Edwards turned to the Dental Boutique, a cosmetic dental practice in Sydney’s CBD.
The clinic’s chief dentist, Dr Ben Hargreave, said the woman’s teeth had been “destroyed”.
A Sydney dentist who assisted the woman said the Turkish clinic had removed a shocking amount of natural tooth tissue in what he described as a ‘bloodbath’
He said Turkish dentists had removed a shocking amount of dental tissue during the operation, which would not have happened if she had stayed in Australia.
Mrs Edwards underwent another 12-hour operation at the clinic to have the bridges removed, after which she had to wear dentures for a year to allow her gums to heal.
Mrs Edwards finally received the veneers she initially requested 18 months later.
Now she is calling on others not to follow the same social media trends as she did.