Woman pulls out her own tooth and inserts £2 replacement she bought online
dailyrecord.co.ukA woman pulled her own tooth out with pliers and replaced it with a fake one she bought for £2 on the internet due to a lack of dental appointments in her town.
Helen Sheen, said she was forced to take the course of action after her dentist closed two years ago and she could not find another one nearby that would take her on.
The 61-year-old suffers from gum disease and said one of her teeth started to come loose forcing her to take matters into her own hands.
During the pandemic the gran purchased a glass tooth from online shopping platform Wish for just two quid. Helen, from 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, according to YorkshireLive. “The only thing I could think of was melting glue and moulding it into the gap.
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