Woman’s Veneers Left Her With ‘Elephant Skin'
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.”
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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