SHOCKING PICTURES: Young woman spent years straightening her teeth but horror accident left her with huge medical bill
An NHS worker spent five years in braces to get the perfect smile – only to trip over some steps and LOSE her ‘beautiful’ teeth.
Scarlett Greenwood was running inside to get out of the cold at her partner’s house last month when she lost her footing on concrete steps, smashing her face on the ledge. The 21-year-old broke her nose, lost a tooth and had bone in her mouth – while suffering devastating injuries to her two front teeth which will cost her £8,000 to fix. The gruesome photos show her front teeth ‘snipped’ and broken back in her mouth, hanging by their roots with her lip torn and bloody.
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She immediately went to the hospital where doctors were able to force her front teeth back together and put a temporary wire on her teeth to hold them in place.
Scarlett has since had surgery on her broken nose but is left in agony as her teeth ‘die’ due to root damage.
The NHS worker previously wore braces for half a decade to correct an overbite and only had them removed in 2022. She admits losing the smile she worked so hard to fix was “traumatic” and has damaged her confidence.
Scarlett, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, said: “This was a horrible accident. It was quite traumatic, seeing yourself with almost no teeth. I had braces for about five years, so I had nice teeth before. It knocked my confidence down a lot.
“I had a huge overbite and coincidentally they told me I was in danger if I fell they would come out, which apparently happened after the braces. My teeth were moved back so my jaw was realigned and as you can see in the pictures it was perfectly straight.
“My teeth are actively dying, they’re dead, so I have to take them out and put in a temporary denture and then I have to have four implants. I’m very smiley anyway and my job is to make people happy and better and smile again and obviously I can’t do that now.
“I’m in a lot of pain too. I’m on a lot of painkillers right now, just trying to keep the pain at bay. I’m not at work right now. I’m trying to get out for my own good and my own mental health, but it’s more the pain than anything else.
“I can’t sleep at night and I’m also on a bland diet so I can’t really get solid food so I’ve lost a lot of weight from that as well.”
The NHS is unable to fund the treatment as it does not fund dental work for over 18s, which now leaves her to fund the treatment she needs on her own. The surgery is estimated to cost £8,000, with a bone graft also needed due to the extent of the damage.
Scarlett said: “Because of my age I’m obviously classed as an adult so it’s not funded by the NHS. I had a dentist appointment a week and a half ago and he did x-rays and the nerves in my two front teeth were completely ‘severed’ is the word he used, and they’re full of infection and actively dying.
“I need a bone graft and I don’t have much bone left in my two front teeth. It’s a lot of money, so any money I get from the Go Fund Me will go towards my treatment.”
To donate to Scarlett’s GoFundMe: Donate to help Scarlett access emergency dental treatment, organized by Kennedy Power
