An Aussie woman has issued a dire warning after she flew overseas to have cheap dental surgery before her teeth began to rot and ‘fell out’.
Sydney woman Kim Edwards, 45, flew to Turkey – the mecca for budget cosmetic surgery – and paid $30,000 to get a facelift and veneers.
Ms Edwards returned to Australia when the bridge became infected and came close to necrosis.
Things take time to settle and heal but they hadn’t even touched my nose and my teeth, this is gross, but I could smell them rotting,’ she told Yahoo.
The 45-year-old was forced to spend another $80,000 fixing her teeth back home, prompting her to share an urgent warning to anyone thinking about going overseas.
‘It’s just a dodgy situation. Instagram is a fraud, TikTok a fraud,’ she said.
‘Everything’s filtered. It’s all lies. I try to stop my friends and things from going over.’
Ms Edwards had thoroughly researched the clinics in Turkey before she settled on one that had a 4.9 star rating.
A woman who paid over $100,000 for veneers at a clinic in Turkey has been left gobsmacked after being given the wrong type of surgery which fell out a month later (stock image)
Instead of filing down her teeth to short points and covering them with a row of porcelain teeth, Ms Edwards was instead given dental bridges.
The more practical approach to teeth replacement, bridges fill in gaps by anchoring a fake tooth to its real counterparts.
Ms Edwards’ issues continued to grow after returning to her home in Sydney, when her new teeth started to cause infections because she found it hard to clean.
She was then left shocked about a month later when one of the bridges ‘fell out’ of her mouth while she was eating lunch.
Ms Edwards attempted to contact the Turkish clinic to find out how to fix the issue only to be blamed for not cleaning them properly.
After pressing them again for answers, she said they ‘wiped their hands’ of her and blocked Ms Edwards on Instagram.
Having run out of options Ms Edwards turned to the Dental Boutique, a cosmetic dentistry in Sydney’s CBD.
The clinic’s principal 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’
He said Turkish dentists had removed a shocking amount of tooth structure during the surgery, which wouldn’t have happened had she stayed in Australia.
Another 12-hour surgery for Ms Edwards at the clinic to have the bridges removed was followed by a year of wearing false teeth to allow her gums to heal.
Ms Edwards has finally been fitted with the veneers she initially requested 18 months later.
Now she’s urging others not to fall for the same social media on trends that she did.
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