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My Turkey teeth nearly killed me – I should’ve worried when the dentist dropped them…it almost cost £80k to fix them
A WOMAN has opened up about how her Turkey teeth almost killed her – and then she had to pay £18K to fix them.
desperately wanted a ‘Hollywood smile’ and decided to jet off to Istanbul for the dental crown and root canal surgery.
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But the 35-year-old’s dream quickly turned into a nightmare when the clinic she’d booked into botched her treatment and left her in excruciating pain.
Amanda, who is from Belfast, revealed: “My Turkey teeth nearly killed me.”
She later added in a new interview with : “I was sold the dream but I was delivered an absolute nightmare.”
Amanda said pregnancy had caused some of her teeth to become damaged so she decided to take the plunge and have them fixed.
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She knew many people who had previously had their teeth done in Turkey and wanted a quick win so decided to follow in their footsteps.
Amanda then booked her flight and treatments, with the clinic providing her transport to and from the airport and her hotel.
And when the mum arrived at the “spotless” clinic, she was initially impressed, as they discussed her getting her work done.
But things quickly took a turn for the worse – as Amanda recalled feeling uncomfortable with the pain relief injections.
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She explained: “He was doing injections literally in the roof of my mouth. He was whacking these injections in everywhere.
“The next minute I know he was drilling down on my teeth – it was sore. My mouth was not numb.
“I was crying, it was horrendous. I remember my body shaking, I felt like a fish out of water.”
Amanda added: “I wasn’t expecting the amount of pain I was in.”
But that was nothing compared to what Amanda was left with.
She explained: “In the space of about two hours, my teeth were filed down into very sharp little points – I was in shock. I had no idea that’s what was going to happen.”
She said she initially thought the “little rows of teeth” they then showed her were temporary.
She continued: “They were dropped on the floor and I laughed because I thought they were just these false little teeth just to show me the shape and the colour that I was going for.”
I was sold the dream but I was delivered an absolute nightmare
Amanda Turner
However, after another appointment, she discovered that this was the permanent set – and she wasn’t getting the individual ones she’d asked for.
After arriving back home to Ireland, Amanda booked an emergency dentist appointment.
She recalled: “He said, ‘I’ve never seen a worse job – they didn’t even fit your mouth, there were gaps, they were hanging off my gums.’
“It was just horrendous. He told me he would refer me to the school of dentistry in Northern Ireland – they do not fix failed cosmetic work abroad.”
In the meantime, Amanda scoured the internet in search of someone who could help her fix her smile.
“I was looking for somebody who was willing to remove the teeth. I just wanted them off and the pain to stop.”
She also took to social media and her TikTok account and shared how fixing them would cost her around £18k.
No smile is worth nearly dying for
Amanda Turner
The videos went viral and caught the attention of a dentist called Dr Rhona Eskander, who contacted her and reached out to her.
Dr Rhona helped her come up with a treatment plan to fix Amanda’s mouth – but it wasn’t an easy task.
The dentist explained: “The process to fix this all started and it involved six dentists, sixty hours in the chair and lots of different factors.”
Amanda added: “Finanically it should have cost me between £70,000 - £80,000. I did get a discount and we made an agreement.”
But Amanda said the correction work was worth every single penny, as she urged other people to not make the same mistakes with dental tourism.
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She concluded: “No smile is worth nearly dying for, no trend is worth following to be left in life-threatening situations. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”
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