Woman wakes up at foreign dentist to discover her teeth have been REMOVED while she was unconscious

Alison Divers suffered a trip to the dentist that is truly the thing of nightmares.
The retired Army Private had to have an emergency dental operation abroad while she was stationed in Germany, and so she did what everyone else would do and visited the dentist.
After she had come to from the treatment the then 25-year-old discovered all her top teeth had been removed, and left hanging in a bag above her head.

 

Alison shows off the devastating effect the operation had on her mouth

“I bit into an apple and the front two teeth cracked so I went to the army - the army have their own dentist - and he said he had to refer me to another dentist outside of the army," Alison explained to Channel 5's Botched Up Bodies.
“I was never scared of the dentist but when I went there, the thing that scared me was the language barrier. He was only able to understand a little bit.
“The only one thing I can remember from growing up as a child is the injections you have. They had to give it to me about five times for some reason, and it wouldn’t go numb. And I told him that. So he decided it would be better if he made me unconscious.

 

Alison was nervous during her treatment as the local anaesthetic kept wearing off

“I said, ‘yeah, that’s fine’ because it was better for me - I didn’t have to go through it all.”
“When I woke up, it was like being on a horror picture. He had actually put all my teeth in a plastic bag above my head and I went mad.
“Where they weren’t rotten or anything, he’d actually forced them out. They had to cut my gums to get some of them out. I couldn’t take it all in, I was mortified. I was so young, I was only 25 and he’d taken everything.”
Alison then went back to the army’s dentist to seek help but was just given an ill-fitting denture.

 

Alison wouldn't smile in public for fear of her denture falling out

“I hate them. They make my mouth taste of plastic. Big bit of plastic stuck in my mouth that falls out.”
Alison’s fiance Mark revealed how the incident had affected her
“She won’t do something or she might not do something because of people looking at her.”
Alison: “I have to live with this for the rest of my life because of his negligence, but what do you do?

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“I’ve never ever since that day had pictures. I haven’t got a lot of pictures of my children because I’m so paranoid about [my teeth].”
Alison is then taken to a cosmetic dentist to see whether her smile can be saved, and luckily for her, there’s just enough bone left to support a full set of replacement implants.
However, the scars from her original surgery have left their mark, and Alison is left visibly terrified before the procedure.
During the procedure, Alison becomes immune to the local anaesthetic, forcing to dentist to top it up to ensure a pain-free operation.

 

Alison after having her teeth corrected in Botched Up Bodies

Unfortunately it happens again as the procedure continues and Alison cries out in pain and clamps her mouth shut.
It’s only when the dentist shouts at her to open her mouth so he can fix the problem, that Alison begins to re-open her mouth and relax.
After the operation is completed and Alison feels her new teeth, she’s overcome with emotion and breaks down while still in the dentist’s chair.
It took eight hours of dentistry to give Alison her smile back, but for her, it’s all worth it.

 

Alison's all smiles now she's had implants to replace her lost teeth

“I don’t have to cover my mouth now when I’m talking to anybody. I can walk down the road and be smiling and enjoying it and not have to worry about them.
“Having this done has changed my confidence. I used to always look down when I was walking around but now my head’s high and smiling and joking.
“Before I had this done I would never my picture taken and I can do it now.”
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