i ve extracted 13 of my own teeth. danielle, a busy working single mum needs help. terrible gum disease is wrecking her teeth. as her gums recede, teeth that were perfectly healthy start to become wobbly. there is excruciating nerve pain, abscesses and a risk of infection. eventually the teeth becomes so loose, danielle can just pull them out. more than a dozen teeth she s pulled out herself. so those are, those are big teeth. big teeth, yes. and you can see there s no sort of decayed on the teeth. it s not like you have fillings or decay in the teeth themselves. no, my teeth are all relatively fine. it s all this mess is what is going on below the gum line. i m 42 years old and i can t eat and i can t drink. and i m on painkillers every day. i m not a 90 year old woman. this shouldn t be happening to me now. seven years ago, she did have a dentist. but then the dental surgery started to cancel appointments. just got a letter through the post saying we re closing. and that wa
and i, like a lot of other people, cannot afford to go and get this treatment done privately. so physically, it sounds like it s really challenging with lots of sort of physical pain. yeah. what s the, what s the mental impact being on you, on your mental health, do you think? i won t go out and meet new people. i avoid crowded situations. i walk with my head down a lot of the time. at work, if somebody s standing there having a conversation with me and they make me laugh, i hang my head when i m laughing because ijust, i just know what they re seeing in front of their face. you ve got to show me how to turn this on again. don t squirt me, though. yeah. don t squirt me. got it? reckon that s enough?