Considering dental implants abroad?

Unfortunately, Foria, the implant treatment that she had abroad has been both harmful and damaging, and this damage is permanent. So, you know, we can't often resolve or recover these issues, and patients are often left with a worse situation now than they first started with.

Well, I don't really know the reason why I had to have implants in the first place. I was suffering with a toothache top, and I went to see this dentist, and then before I knew it, he took them all out at the top, and he said to me I needed implants. About, well, I must have been very, very little at the time, I had an accident on a bike and my bottom teeth was all jagged, so he said he won't take them out, you'll just put something over them so it hide all the jagged bits.

Well, then when we come back from Spain, we had to go and find a dentist so I could say, look, could you help me? So we found this guy, and he said to me there's nothing he could do for me, he doesn't do that sort of treatment now, but then he said to me I've got a guy you will like, and that was AA. I phoned up, made an appointment with him, and I think within, I think it was a week, I come to see him, and when he looked in my mouth, he went, oh my God.

So when I saw Maria, there was lots of things going wrong. She had 13 implants in total, so she had eight in the upper jaw, five in the lower jaw. The upper jaw, she had a full clearance, so there were no natural teeth, so these eight implants were supporting a single full arch bridge. However, these implants were failing, they were exposed, so all the left implants were, all the threads were exposed in the mouth. There was pus straining from the implants, there was infection, inflammation, swelling. Some of the implants were penetrating the nose and the sinus. In the lower jaw, she had five implants, one of them was failing, and her front teeth were all crowned, and she had undergone elective root canal treatment prior to the crowns, which were linked, and they had poor shapes, fit, color, they were bulky. You know, there was generally no access for cleaning in her mouth, and her bite was very unstable.

I went through agony, I went through pain, I went through loads of operations. I was in the chair for 4 hours getting all these things out. I was in the chair for another 5 hours getting the rest of them out. I couldn't smile because the teeth was hanging. So when I seen AK, AK said I can do you a... I was, I said I don't want false teeth, I don't want false teeth, and he said well, Marie, he said it's either that or you have the implants, and I said I don't want the implants, I'll have my... I said I have that. I didn't like to call it denture, I said I love that thing, and it goes okay, Maria, we're going to do that.

So for Maria, luckily, the temporary denture was successful, and we did give an option of having a second course of implant treatment with major reconstruction. However, understandably, she didn't want to go through the emotional stress again and the financial kind of burden, so she was happy to opt for basically a complete upper plastic denture, okay. And in the lower jaw, as I said, we were able to save virtually everything, so we swapped the restorations for a final set of crowns.

When that get finished with me, he really, really changed my life. I did say I was singing, but my life has changed one hundred percent because I can go out with confidence with the children, my friends, we can go out and have a good old chat and have a good meal together because I can eat, before I couldn't. It changed my life one hundred percent. I can't say any more than that. If you want things done properly, stay in the UK, that's my advice to anybody.