i saw this article here on yahoo news and it's about young influencers
having their teeth ground down to place crowns on them so that i mean so they look better
and what really worried me about this was it almost seemed to be a rite of passage now i first
saw this on social media with katie price i mean aka jordan where she had had her teeth ground
down to stumps basically so that she could have crowns fitted on them and she's a lot older she's
i don't think a good representation of what we would describe as normal
and now i see this article in Yahoo news about a lot of young influencers who are having this done
and what really worried me the most when i saw this is the way that one seems to have
had it done as an 18th birthday present so clearly her parents paid for her to have
these well effectively her teeth destroyed don't don't don't imagine this is different you are
destroying your teeth to have this done and this is no rite of passage this is nothing trivial
you are literally ruining your teeth to have this done and you know there are alternatives
they're called thins that can be placed on top of the teeth to make them look slightly better but
you've got to understand that you can these things need to be replaced
they're going to need to be replaced about every 10 to 15 years depending on how good
the operator there's some brilliant operators you're going to pay for that who could probably
make them last longer but let's say they're needing to be replaced every 10 to 15 years
and there's likely to be complications you know it you're likely to get you know you're having
this done on several teeth you're likely to get an infection or a fracture or one of them
is going to fall off and you'll never quite replace them with exactly the same color again
and this means that every time they're redone you increase the chance of literally losing one
of the teeth and if you're going to have this done at 18 years or old or when you're young
the chance of you lasting those teeth lasting your whole life is slim and you are highly likely to
end up with dentures and that great deal of bone loss and facial effects um the alternative to
do this well you could have orthodontics you know i'm no great fan of holding the teeth out of their
balance zone for life and i think that can cause complications in itself you know orthodontics is
great you can move the teeth into position i know it's slower i know it doesn't look as fun
while it's occurring but it's a lot lot safer than having this done to your teeth
um clearly i would encourage you to do some mewing to see if you can improve things
but you know it's not going to be for everyone and it's an incredibly tough thing to do and it's not
going to get instant results and that's i think one of the worries i see with these people they
want instant results and it's almost like they're making publicity out of this extreme event they're
going down but please if you watch what i do if you have if you care please share this please
share this video with these impressionable young people who want to be influencers because this is
not a good thing to do we really have to stop this now this is it's not a good thing and think think
of the long term you know you are going to get old it's not negotiable and this is your health