Gran spends £8,000 on new full set of Turkey teeth and ‘can’t stop smiling’

A grandma had to person each her teeth removed and replaced with £8,000 implants aft losing much than fractional of her teeth to gum disease.

Hayley Debra Potter, 57, began losing teeth 14 years agone aft a gum illness caused achy abscesses passim her mouth.

19 of her teeth fell retired oregon had to beryllium removed, and the remaining teeth were truthful yellow Hayley hadn’t smiled with her teeth successful years.

She yet decided to publication herself successful for ‘Turkey Teeth’, aft she’d ‘had enough’ of her dental problems, astatine a well-reviewed session successful Antalya, Turkey.

At £8,000 for a afloat acceptable of implants and bridges, it was £20,000 little than clinics she had looked up successful the UK.

Earlier this month, the grandmother-of-three hopped connected a formation and successful a four-and-a-half hr procedure, had each 13 of her remaining teeth removed.

She had 10 dental implants inserted – and volition deterioration dentures for six months portion it heals capable for crowns and bridges to beryllium added.

But she says already she can’t halt grinning – and said her ‘confidence is done the roof’.

Hayley, a infirmary ward housekeeper from Derby, East Mids., said: ‘Before the surgery, I felt truthful insecure and I would ne'er grin with my teeth. I had to mentally hole myself truthful I would enactment calm and deliberation of the extremity result.

‘I was awake the full clip – but I was good with that due to the fact that the surgeon was bloody handsome! Afterwards, I got precise swollen and bruised – I was unrecognisable.

‘But present I consciousness wonderful. I cognize it volition alteration my beingness completely. I’ve ne'er smiled truthful overmuch successful my life. It was worthy each penny!’

She chose Smilepod Dental Clinic, Antalya, for the procedure, and said she had ‘no symptom the archetypal day’ due to the fact that she was numbed.

‘I was fixed painkillers and anti-inflammatories,’ she said. ‘I was precise swollen and bruised but everyone successful the edifice was having immoderate benignant of cosmetic country truthful I was good supported.’

Hayley was fixed a acceptable of imperishable dentures to deterioration for six months, astatine which constituent her dental implants volition beryllium afloat healed and she tin person her ‘proper’ teeth – the dental bridges – enactment on.

She returned to the UK connected October 17, and has since continued a soft-food fare – which she has to support for six months until she gets her bridges.

But she said she’s already implicit the satellite with her shiny achromatic caller smile.

She added: ‘I can’t devour pugnacious foods astatine the infinitesimal but I couldn’t anyhow due to the fact that of however atrocious my teeth were before. I consciousness wonderful. I already cognize it volition alteration my beingness completely.

‘Whenever I locomotion past a reflector I grin – I can’t halt smiling! I’ve ne'er smiled truthful overmuch successful my life.’

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