Woman’s Veneers Left Her With ‘Elephant Skin'

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Credit: SWNS / Lily Lindsay  A woman was left with painful “elephant skin" all over her body - after she claims she developed a severe allergy to her veneers.   Lily Lindsay, 29, paid £1,000 for her veneers after being self conscious of her teeth all her life and was "chuffed with the result".  But she started suffering from hay fever-like symptoms in August 2022.  The reaction left her on antidepressants and a recluse in her own home.  Lily, a document controller from Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, said: “My veneers gave me immensely dry and flaky skin - like elephant skin.  “No doctors could help me - so I ended up on anti-depressants. It was absolutely consuming me.”

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00:00 People have been commenting and asking how I cleared my face eczema up because it does

00:10 look so much better.

00:11 Around a year ago to the date I had decided to get some dental work done.

00:16 I didn't like the way my top teeth looked so I had decided to go for composite bonding

00:21 veneers.

00:22 So they build you a tooth on top of your natural tooth out of white dental filling, white composite

00:29 and I had that done on 6 of my top teeth.

00:31 I loved them, I was so happy with them but 2 weeks after that was when I first started

00:35 to get the redness under my eyes and I also had really really dry lips.

00:39 But I would have never tied the two together, I thought it was just a new product that I

00:42 was potentially using.

00:43 It was only when it started spreading around my body and it wasn't getting any better with

00:47 anything I was trying apart from steroid cream but I didn't want to use that in the long

00:50 run did I look at the timelines and think "okay could this be something to do with what

00:57 I've just had done to my teeth?"

00:58 Because also at the time there was stuff coming out about gel nail allergies and at home kits

01:04 which is what I had and what I used developing into allergies for white dental filling.

01:09 It was looking like it was quite coincidental.

01:11 I went back to the dentist and she said "it's extremely rare that you would be this allergic

01:16 to what I've just put in your mouth, it's a worldwide thing that people get and there's

01:20 not many recorded allergies for it."

01:22 It was at the point where I was desperate, even if removing them didn't help it at least

01:26 I can say I tried.

01:27 So a sad thing that I spent a lot of money on and I was so happy with I just said "no

01:31 get rid of them."

01:33 So I got that done in April and then about a month later things started clearing up around

01:39 my face and I think I was allergic to that just because of how quickly it's cleared up.

01:45 I had it in for a long time so it's a systemic reaction I was having so it's still working

01:49 its way out my system.

01:50 I do still have some body eczema but just not as bad, really not as bad as what I've

01:54 had before but at least now I can put products back on my face that I used to use before

01:59 my eczema, I can put makeup on my face.

02:01 So I'd love to tell you that there was a medical cure or I found some holy grail cream because

02:06 I know how tough it is to go through something like that but unfortunately that was my experience.

02:11 I had this reaction, an allergic reaction that resulted in eczema to composite filling

02:16 on my teeth.

02:17 It is caused by something so hopefully you get to what your triggers are whether it be

02:21 food, an allergy, product or your dental work which is rare but possible.

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