Woman in agony yanks tooth out with pliers and replaces it with £2 fake from Wish
dailystar.co.ukreports YorkshireLive.Ms Sheen, from Scarborough, suffers from gum disease and said one of her teeth had started to come loose, which is when she decided to take matters into her own hands with a bit of self-dentistry.
She 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 decided to fix the big gap in her bottom row herself, glueing in a fake tooth she bought from Wish.Sheen said: "The only thing I could think of was melting glue and moulding it into the gap.
It’s been two years now."It's working okay now, I can actually smile without seeing a gap."Oral health inequality is set to rise after the British Dental Association announced over 38 million appointments had been lost since the start of the first lockdown.Dentistry is now "hanging by a thread," and reports suggest that many are seeking early retirement or a change in careers.NHS England recently announced they would provide an extra £50 million for dentists to provide additional urgent care for NHS patients.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.General Dental Practice Committee Chair Shawn Charlwood said: "After a decade of cuts a cash-starved service risks being offered money that can’t be spent. "Hard-pressed practices are working against the clock, and many will struggle to find capacity ahead of April for this investment to make a difference."Until today not a penny of the government’s multi-billion-pound catch-up.
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