A woman is horrified after a foreign dentist removed all of her teeth while she was unconscious - and leaves them in a plastic bag above her head.
A 25-year old woman, Alison Divers, who was working as an Army Private, has endured a trip that would leave her fearful of ever seeking professional help again as a foreign dentist removed all of her teeth as she was unconscious.
Her front two teeth reportedly cracked, she thought of taking herself for treatment, and was sent to a dentist where she was stationed in Germany.
The dentist said he needed to put her under general anaesthetic to perform root canal treatment, and she agreed. But upon waking, she was horrified to find he had removed all her teeth, leaving her with bare gums. Not only that, her teeth were left hanging in a bag above her head.
While it isn't clear why the dentist removed all her teeth, his actions had devastating consequences on her life.
"I bit into an apple and my front two teeth cracked, so I went to the dentist. The army have their own dentist,' Ms Divers said on Channel 5's Botched Bodies programme.
"He said 'I have to refer you to a dentist outside the army'. I was never scared of the dentist but when I went there the thing that scared me was the language barrier, he was only able to understand a little bit.
"The only thing I remember about going to the dentist was the injections they give you. I told him that and he thought it was better for me to go unconscious. I thought that was fine-better for me as I didn't have to go through it all."
However, when she woke up from the operation she said it was like being in a 'horror picture.'
"He had actually put all my teeth in a plastic bag above my head and I went mad. I was so angry, I couldn’t focus properly. I was numb and tried to ask him why he’d taken all my teeth out.
"But he kept saying, 'I don’t understand, I don’t understand' and then he walked away. I spent the whole of the night crying. I couldn’t go out of the house. I think I must have cried for about a month."
She still doesn't know why the dentist removed all her teeth.
"They weren't rotten or anything, he'd actually forced them out. They had to cut my gums to get some of them out. I couldn't take it all in, I was mortified. I was so young, I was only 25 and he'd taken everything."