A WOMAN in her twenties was forced to get dentures after all of her teeth rotted away and fell out. Courtney Luna had to fork out a whopping £47,000 on a new smile at just 29 years old. Now the young woman, from Kansas City, Missouri , US, is finally able to smile confidently again.
Production worker Luna has suffered with poor teeth as long as she can remember. Her baby teeth all decayed when she was a child, and her adult teeth were just as fragile. Luna's dentists diagnosed her with dental enamel hypoplasia - a defect characterised by thin or absent enamel.
In a desperate bid to fix the problem, Luna has tried everything from braces to dietary changes - but to no avail. She said: “Throughout my whole life, it has just been pain, deadly infections, three abscesses that caused major swelling, sleepless nights, and tears. “I have spent so many hours of my life in the dentist chair.
“I've had root canals, crowns, fillings, and even had braces when I was a teenager, which even had to be removed due to decay. “I’ve tried changing my diet, brushing regularly, trying everything I could to reserve them, but despite all of that, my teeth would still randomly crack or pop in half, just from eating a normal meal.” The excruciating pain and long hours spent at the dentist forced her to opt out for dentures to permanently correct her smile.
Luna decided it was time for a drastic change as her teeth were still falling out and no medication was helping. She said: “I realise.
