If you have this treatment,’ Dr Can Kucukcay began, ‘in six months time, your gums will start to smell.
‘It’ll get so bad that your girlfriend won’t sleep in the same room as you. You’ll be in severe pain. And in ten years, 100 per cent, you will lose your teeth.’
A week ago I inquired online from London into the possibility of a whiter smile at a Turkish dental clinic in Istanbul. Within 30 minutes a sales rep was demanding pictures of my teeth via WhatsApp and urging me to ‘hurry before prices rise’.
Apparently, from the blurry images I had sent,
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