'I got veneers to hide my rotting teeth

'I got veneers to hide my rotting teeth - I ended up in a coma' View 3 Images

A mum who wore veneers to hide her 'ugly brown stumps' had to be put into a coma - as her teeth 'rotted' due to her phobia of the dentist. Vicki Williams first noticed her lower wisdom teeth were hurting on May 2.

However, she was too scared to visit the dentist so took ibuprofen in the hope it would go away. The 49 year old had not been to a dentist since before the COVID pandemic because she had a phobia and was so 'embarrassed' of her teeth. In fact she hid them behind a set of veneers so they 'looked like Hollywood teeth' but really the teeth were 'rotting' beneath them. Yet by May 5, the pain had become 'unbearable' so she called 111 and was referred to Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe. Vicki, who