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Woman forced to pull out own tooth and replace it with £2 fake one

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A woman pulled her own tooth out with pliers because she was unable to find any dentists that would take her on. Helen Sheen then filled the gap with a fake tooth that she bought for £2 on e-commerce website Wish.

Ms Sheen's dentist closed two years ago and no other practices in her area would register as a patient, YorkshireLive reports.

READ MORE: Doctors thought little girl was suffering with lockdown anxiety but scans showed brain tumour 'the size of an egg' As she suffers from gum disease, she decided to take matters into her own hands when one of her teeth started to come loose.

Ms Sheen, of Scarborough, said: "I have bleeding gums every time I clean my teeth and it’s making me not want to clean them as I hate the taste of blood and all my teeth are getting wobbly. "One in front was so wobbly it had to come out as I couldn’t eat with it so I put Elastoplast on the end of the pliers and tugged it out." Ms Sheen said this left her with a big gap in her bottom row which she decided to tend to with glue and a fake tooth she bought from Wish. "The only thing I could think of was melting glue and moulding it into the gap.

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