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When veneers go very wrong: ‘I knew I’d made the biggest mistake of my life’


They have become as routine as Botox and lip filler. But what can people do when their dream of a perfect smile turns into a nightmare?

“There is a huge demand for veneers that is largely driven by social media and this desire for anatomically symmetrical white smiles,” says Anshu Sood, a co-owner of Helix House Orthodontics, a clinic in Nottingham. In a pattern that has applied to a whole range of cosmetic treatments, less talented or scrupulous practitioners have raced to meet the demand by competing on price and investing in social media marketing. “It can be tempting for these dentists to take a few thousand pounds off young people and do a half-arsed job and leave them in the lurch, because it’s good quick money for them,” says Sutton, who set up TJL Solicitors in Manchester in 2000.

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