A man who was left with rotting teeth and loose crowns after spending £8,000 on dental treatment has undergone restorative work to give him back his smile. Jonathon Anderson, 38, of Dorset, will appear on Channel 5’s documentary Botched Up Bodies to talk about how twenty years of bungled dentistry left him in constant pain and led to a fear of dental treatment. The dentist who treated him for the show described the damage as looking like ‘a bomb had gone off.’
Mr Anderson first started treatment at the age of 18 to remove his wisdom teeth but was left with an infection after the roots of the teeth were left in the socket. His front teeth where then knocked out in an accident but repairs left him with ‘tombstone-like teeth’ that were a different colour to his other teeth. Even after repair work was administered the crowns fell out and Mr Anderson was advised to stick them back in using superglue. According to the Daily Mail, he said ‘When you go to someone who’s a professional dentist, private, and they’re charging an awful lot of money for it, you don’t doubt them.’
In order to treat all the problems, Mr Anderson had to spend about twelve hours in the dentists’ chair and all his teeth were removed and replaced with implants. He is now relieved to finally have his smile back after twenty years and his wife is also happy that he is feeling more confident, he said ‘The confidence is back. Leanne loves how much I can now smile at her. It’s awesome, absolutely awesome!’