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Porcelain Veneers Gone Bad

Submitted by Meg Wilson on August 19, 2008 - 09:11.

Helena Green is a top beauty writer in London and eight weeks ago she went to one of the best cosmetic dentists to get porcelain veneers on her upper teeth. The new smile cost her over $18,000. She regrets this decision immensely.

Now she is in constant pain after having her upper teeth shaved down and getting porcelain veneers (which are too large for her mouth).

The veneers the dentist fitted were significantly longer than my own teeth (something we hadn't discussed and I didn't want) and suddenly I had a lot of porcelain clanging around in my mouth, which made the pain worse.

She was told by a second dentist that the veneers were too big and that my bite had been adversely affected - there was no contact between upper and lower teeth when I bit down, causing the jaw pain.

I also learnt that because I grind my teeth...I was not an ideal candidate for veneers. I was told I would have to get my bite corrected before my dentist could assess whether I needed root canal treatment.

See her painful porcelain veneers story here.

Image above via flickr


( categories: Cosmetic Dentistry )

More Banned IKEA commercials...

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Submitted by Meg Wilson on August 19, 2008 - 11:03.

Partly very funny.

For us, the best humor was mostly around the skit starting at around 1.40 minutes.


( categories: Odd Beauty Stories )

How Many Ways to Please Your Man?

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Submitted by Adriana Rae on August 19, 2008 - 20:10.

How many ways can there possibly be to please your man? Cosmopolitan Magazine never seems to run out of new erogenous zones and sexual tips.

The Onion does a revolutionary funny satire interview video about this below. The punchline is in the last few seconds of the video;


( categories: Odd Beauty Stories )