A young woman has claimed she was given veneers during a nightmare trip to the dentist meant for a routine root canal.
Caitlyn Weld, 22, has shared a viral video of the terrifying moment she realized all her front teeth had been chipped in preparation for false teeth.
As a college student, Weld moved from Tennessee to Florida and went to a new dentist when she learned she had a hole in a tooth and needed a procedure.
Not knowing what to expect, Weld had no idea her chompers were being prepared for cosmetic teeth until it was too late, and she claims her dentist told her that’s what they thought she wanted.
“I didn’t have a mirror the whole time, so I couldn’t see what was going on,” Weld said. Tik Tok. “My teeth were literally shaved off.
Caitlyn Weld, 22, shared the horror story of the dentist who left her with shaved teeth when she went in for a root canal.
Weld said her dentist shaved her teeth because they assumed she wanted veneers and went ahead with it because she didn’t know any better
“I was scared so I asked the lady as we were in the room ‘how does a root canal feel? Will it hurt, can you explain the procedure?’ But he didn’t speak English well [sic] so I never found out.”
Weld was in disbelief when she finally saw her shaved smile, but said she went ahead with it because that’s what the dentist told her to do.
“They told me that the severity of the hole in one of my teeth, the one I had the root canal done, was so bad that they took precautions to prevent it from happening to any of my teeth,” he said.
‘[The dentist said] girls my age normally want all their teeth showing to be the same color and they didn’t want one color to be brighter than the rest and they also told me about the safety of my teeth.
I was like ‘okay’, I was dumb, I was 18, I had no idea about teeth anything, so I went ahead with it. They made it sound necessary, we didn’t know any different.’
The process of getting permanent veneers was painful, and Weld claimed she was given uneven temporaries that had to be filed down so she could eat.
“I remember when they took the temps out and the wind blowing what the hell was left was probably the worst pain I’ve ever seen,” she said.
Getting permanent veneers was painful for Weld, and she was given uneven temporaries that had to be filed down so she could eat
Now, several years later, Weld is finally comfortable sharing her story and showing off her new smile.
“These are my teeth now, they really don’t look much different from the previous teeth. I feel like they’re a little longer, I also bite my gums really bad when I chew, which I never really did,” Weld said.
Weld chose not to identify the dentist because she sees it as a funny story and something she has learned to live with.
Veneers have become more popular in recent years amid a drive to achieve a pearly white smile – with nearly 600,000 people getting them every year.
For veneers, dentists must clean and file the teeth before attaching pearly white caps to the front—at a cost of up to $4,000 per tooth or $40,000 per smile.
