kind of 60 to 70% of your tooth being shaved down puts you at a higher risk of having your tooth being extracted. if they re comfortable knowing that there s a chance that teeth will have to come out in the future, they need root canals, then that s completely up to them, but what worries me is when people are making those decisions to have the crowns without knowing that information. so, do people who are getting this procedure done know all the risks? many people travelling to turkey for this look are in their 20s, like tilly, who got back from turkey six months ago with 16 new crowns. i m smiling a lot more, i m laughing, i m not hiding my mouth, which i did constantly. i m just more.i m more myself. it s given me my confidence back, i m not hiding. i ve turkey teeth and i am proud of it! so, tilly, why did you want to go to turkey for dental treatment? so, ever since a young age, i was bullied for my teeth. so, i grew a complex against them, i didn t like them. i was called things
going to have any problems. they never said, you know, that your teeth can die, that you can get they never said anything. they never told me anything. not 11 years ago, and not in september 21. getting a full mouth of crowns, like tilly and lisa, is a big decision, and it clearly can have long term consequences. i m very curious, because the people we ve spoken to have said they ve been given their definitive treatment plans byjust sending pictures of their teeth, via instagram dm, so they haven t really had any conversation with a dentist or anything. they ve just simply sent pictures of their teeth. so, i m curious to put this to the test myself. so, what i ve decided to do is take a few pictures of my teeth, and i m going to send them to a few dental clinics in turkey. we sent the same message, with exactly the same pictures of my teeth, to 150 cosmetic
that better, i wouldn t think twice, because you trust these people. how many uk clinics do you think responded with me needing crowns or veneers? mmm.20%? none. none ah! wow! i do understand why lots of different people travel abroad for cosmetic dentistry. it s more expensive here in the uk. just look at jack. he s really happy with his results. tilly gained so much confidence. but my heart breaks for lisa, who says she wasn t informed of the risks, and now that decision affects her everyday life, and she regrets it heavily. and that s what has always worried me about this trend. before you make any major decision about your teeth, know all the risks, know what treatments you re getting, and once you get it done, know there is no going back.
we don t want people to see our teeth. we re depressed, we re crying. you re not seeing what s going on in our bedrooms behind closed doors. don t just shout at us when we re coming into your practices. like, understand why we might have had it done. just be a bit more sympathetic with it. you know, tilly s given me a better understanding about why people are actually doing this. she had genuine, genuine concerns and insecurities. she wasn t brushing her teeth cos she didn t want to look in the mirror. she wasn t eating, she wasn t eating in public. she wasn t laughing, she wasn t smiling. she said she wouldn t do the interview with me today if she had her old teeth. it s changed her life massively. tilly really did know what she was getting into. she had done her research, yet she didn t realise that her dentist in the uk wouldn t touch her turkey teeth. is that the same for all dentists in the uk? i m here in liverpool to meet m], the director of a popular cosmetic dental practice.
smile by shaving down your natural teeth to pegs and placing caps on top. this is a crown treatment, and sometimes, up to 20 crowns are fitted in one go. there s nothing wrong with going abroad for treatment. there are good and bad dentists everywhere, ok. we have some of the best dentists in the world in turkey. just know all of the information. know that having kind of 60 to 70% of your tooth being shaved down puts you at a higher risk of having your tooth being extracted. if they re comfortable knowing that there s a chance that teeth will have to come out in the future, they need root canals, then that s completely up to them, but what worries me is when people are making those decisions to have the crowns without knowing that information. so, do people who are getting this procedure done know all the risks? many people travelling to turkey for this look are in their 20s, like tilly, who got back from turkey six months ago with 16 new crowns.