Patient Video Nikki

What this video covers

Nikki describes a combined trip involving a full set of porcelain crowns, a chin implant, and a mini facelift, after years of researching options for her overbite, weak chin profile, and crooked teeth. She details researching online reviews before booking, being placed in a villa as a solo traveller, and walks through her dental appointments and her chin implant and facelift surgery day, including hospital care, recovery at the villa, and the fitting of her final teeth about a week later.

• Had a full set of porcelain crowns, a chin implant, and a mini facelift
• Researched online reviews, citing 104 reviews on a medical tourist review site, before booking
• As a solo female traveller she was automatically placed in the patient villa
• Her final teeth were fitted about a week after her chin implant and facelift surgery, with the fitting itself taking about two hours

Hi my name is NIKKI and I’m post surgery I had a full set of porcelain crowns and I had a chin implant and a mini facelift I had before I came I had a very bad overbite and the profile facade profile of my face my chin was going in it was very weak I just hated the profile plus I had crooked teeth so I’ve been looking for about four five years maybe on and off about where to get my teeth fixed the uk is stupid money and abroad you worry that maybe they’re gonna ruin you ruin your mouth then I saw women talking about having surgery in the sun newspaper and so I straight away went on to Revitalize site website to see if they do dentistry and they did and then I I looked through the whole thing packages how much it costs and then I looked for reviews I found them on the medical tourist review system and they were top and when I looked they had 104 reviews I read them all just to make sure and they were all good and then I put in reviews for vitalize turkey just to see what else comes up anyway you know I did my research so that was quite good so then same day I emailed revitalized said that I was thinking about having you know my mouth sorted by my teeth sorted out and because in the uk the dentist said he wants to break my jaw two times twenty thousand pounds then he wants to put a top brace two thousand pounds bottom brace two thousand pounds as an implant two thousand pounds and the whole process is going to take three years so each time I go to the dentist for the brace he tightens it more money and at the same time I didn’t want my jaw broken but they gave me no other options of what you could do so I explained all this in an email I received a reply from turin and you know he gave me quite quite insights they don’t do jaw breaking over here not that I wanted her and that there are possible other ways to get around it so then I sent before and after before pictures of my profile of my and of my teeth so I sent them and he took them or sent them to the dentist and then a couple of days later I got because they had to make sure that they could do what I wanted a couple of days later I got an email back from torin saying this is what we can do this is how much it will cost and basically I would need 28 full set 28 teeth porcelain crams and the price was excellent so I asked a few more questions smaller ones about my chin because it went back week 10 you know because if they break my jaw then they could do my get my chin how it should be but how can teeth do this I wanted to know what was going to happen about my overbites and he emailed back and said that they can’t kill my overbite obviously it’s a jaw problem but they can do the teeth so that it’s not noticeable and I already knew that I probably would need a tuna plant implant so I mentioned that as well and so pretty much after a few days I ask questions I ask questions I always got reply toran isn’t the dentist he isn’t the surgeon but he knows the answers he knows he knows his job then I said am I this is april so then I said I’m thinking about coming over in may so he said that was fine they had like vacancies and I think it was a couple of days later he said you know if you’d like me to call you I will call you so we arranged a time in a day and he called me we were speaking for about 45 minutes some of it was about dentistry some of it was about turkey because I’d never been before and so that was cool so then I booked and with regards to a woman on her own in a foreign country I was kind of nervous because I haven’t been to turkey before so I said I really want to say developer they automatically put you in the villa if you’re a single woman coming to a different country on your own so that was good and I was going to be picked up from the airport I didn’t have to try and do sign language to a taxi driver or get ripped off by taxi drivers because they do that to all tourists in every country and so that was cool so then take the flight saddam the driver he takes you to the clinic to the dentist to the hospital he picks you up from the airport lovely lovely guy he picked me up from the airport he had a sign so totally smooth process I’d go to the villa and the time that I arrived the villa was full and it was quite funny because I was shocked because on the sofa was two girls I’d never seen anyone that had nose jobs before there was two girls that had had no jobs I think there was a couple of ladies that have had neck done and there’s a couple of ladies that had their teeth mother and daughter that had their teeth done and then there was another lady that had a butt implant and she couldn’t sit down so it was a full house all chattering straight away tiana when she opens the door hello hello hello she makes you very welcome and so did the ladies that were sitting in the lounge so that was brilliant because that’s quite nervous you know anyway so I arrived on a saturday they don’t work on a sunday so sunday I had a free day two ladies took me out to a bazaar which is lovely lovely lovely I won’t talk about too much of this otherwise I’ll be here forever monday was the dough because it’s quite nervous even though I have faith I was still a bit nervous obviously so monday go to the dentist again these people are lovely everything is clean sterile and the girls have got a smile on their face they’re just lovely so they take pictures x-ray they have a look and then they discuss so basically the monday they took the pictures took the x-ray asked me which color they have a color chart this is natural it’s the one before hollywood so if you want hollywood that’s cool but if you want natural that’s this that day they ground down my teeth ready for the crowns then they put temporary teeth in and then I went home now you’re gonna ask whether it hurts yes of course it hurts no pain no gain but not that bad you’re not gonna die do you know what I mean and they are brilliant they give as much anaesthetic as possible there’s a liquid anaesthetic I never had before in the uk you swirl it around your mouth spit it out brilliant so yeah then I go home but obviously temporary teeth my temporary teeth because it fits your natural teeth I was pretty much eating mashed potatoes scrambled eggs really soft things you know but I think that’s because I was paranoid that they might come out and I might eat them but so yeah and they also took impressions of my teeth to send off to the lab to get my new teeth done so that was day one of the dentist so yeah and you get antibiotics and painkillers you know you’re not left in pain so then I go back to the villa I have my dinner that was monday I think tuesday I went for a consultation with Dr Cenk about our chilean plan and so he had a look and he said he would do a chin implant can you see I’ve put some makeup on but that’s the scars well it’s not a scar yet because it’s new it’s very small he said he showed me pictures of people that had the same problem as me so their profile their side profile was pretty much the same as mine then he showed me the after pictures and he said what he had done he said chin implant mini facelift and a little bit of lipo on the neck or chin this area here so first of all like didn’t know he did a facelift and you know but I trust him otherwise I wouldn’t have it done I trust his opinion I’ve seen the reviews and I know he will only do the best he wants the end result to be the best you know what I mean so if he just put the tuning plan in it wouldn’t have been complete good profile you know so I agreed so that was that so that was tuesday wednesday was the day of the operation for chilling plan and this you go to the hospital where you meet tuber and she’s a lovely lady she looks after you in the hospital and she introduced herself fill in a few forms like they take your medical history they ask all the questions that’s needed because you’re going to be having a general anaesthetic you know very very thorough harun comes up with you her own pretty much he’s in the dentist with you he’s in the hospital with you he’s in a minibus when you’re going around with you very good so I did all that then I’m waiting for my op so they gave me pre-med and they said they would take me they give me the pre-med I’m on the trolley and then they take you and then they will give you the general anaesthetic but to be honest with you I took the pre-med I don’t remember leaving the room or anything and that was about I think two o’clock in the afternoon and I woke up about midnight tuba was there and I asked all the time was and I couldn’t believe it’s been done I slept and I did not feel sick did not feel anything I’ve had three four operations in the uk and the general and each time I felt sick and I just like you know maybe because I slept for a long time anyway so that’s that then thursday morning Dr Cenk comes around 8 a.m 8 a.m he asks how you are and tells you how it went and then he took my bandages off from my facelift cleans has a look and then re-does it and you know he says okay if you want to leave you’ll find to go home that day so and then says I’ll see you so at the clinic so that was wednesday that was thursday so thursday I went home back to the villa and tr was reassuring me because you know it’s like oh my god it’s swollen and she’s seen people before she’s seen people during and then she’s seeing people after every operation so no matter what you have she knows it’s not going to look like that forever it’s very reassuring so that was thursday friday I think I didn’t need to see anyone saturday I didn’t need to see anyone sunday I didn’t need to see anyone monday bank holiday oh that’s yesterday sorry my days are yeah yesterday was monday today’s tuesday so yesterday I had the bandages off you can still see bruises my face is swollen still so this isn’t what I’m gonna look like in a week hopefully no this isn’t what I’m gonna look like and my chin is gonna go down I’m not gonna look like jimmy heel forever and obviously there’s bruises and I put a bit of makeup on tiona washed my hair for me with a medicated shampoo or it was bliss and I could itch my ears so yeah I had my badges off then I went to the dentist she had one last look then her own come with me and the dentist came with me and we went to the lab science book and I met the guy I can’t remember his name sorry who had made my teeth and he introduced himself and they were all ready so then I sit in a chair they take oh this is what they did at the dentist sorry they took the temporary teeth out in the dentist so then I go to the lab I sit in the chair and they put my new teeth in with some not glue or it’s something to hold them there just while I look and I make sure that everything’s fine I’m happy with everything I can do the correct bite just in case I need to make any adjustments and haram said that the guy that made my teeth had been working on my teeth just for three days or just my teeth for three days which because my mouth was a little complex and the pictures will be on here as well before and after but this is after so you can see so yeah my mouth was complex okay I look I know everybody does this with their teeth if you have a problem you think how can I fix my problem so you look at pictures on the internet you look at before after did she have the same or did he have the same problem as me if so then that’s good he can fix it because you worry about this you know anyway he put them in and then I was looking you know to make sure in the mirror the hand mirror that everything was correct am I happy am I a hundred percent happy so yeah I had the hand mirror and I was looking and like I said because my teeth was complex my situation I was quite complex I’m amazed at how they did it I’m not just saying that I am because I didn’t think I would ever have straight tooth you know so yeah so they ask you to relax your jaws or bite like that no relax and if your teeth are resting comfortably they’re fine so I bit or relax gently and your back teeth should be even evenly resting one side was and I couldn’t feel the other side so they said okay we know what the problem is so they took them out and then the guy that made my teeth said that he just needs to take a little bit off or lengthen but anyway to make sure that they rest properly so was about 11 00 o’clock in the morning and the teeth would be polished it’s very important that they polish because otherwise they’ll stain I did a little research on the internet first so yeah that was brilliant and they’ve been ready in about three hours so you know I went back to the village shield and then I went back to the dentist they were there ready so I sat in the chair and from beginning to end it took two hours to put my teeth in I would say maybe it depends on the individual maybe about an hour and a half it would take but I because I had that complicity complex situation it was a bit fiddly down there so two hours yeah and you know when you’re having it done before they put the teeth in because I googled I like google I knew the process before she did it okay like they have to really this I don’t know what it’s called put this liquid stuff on maybe quite a wall whatever and go around your teeth and she did that and then she did another solution and then she used the sucker sorry anyway I knew that she was doing everything other dentists had said you know because if you don’t clean properly you don’t dry properly and then you put the cap on infection so everything was reassuring she did everything you know and a couple of times I heard the drill I didn’t feel the drill I was numb so again I was happy with that because I knew she’d put the cap on and maybe she just needed to remove just a little bit and she did it she could have just put it on like I fly home no you know so yeah so when I was over again yes there was pain I’m you know I’m not gonna lie and everybody’s got a different pain threshold you know you guys you can’t have them so and what I like about the dentist is you knew that her job was rewarding it wasn’t just another person coming in going out that’s it because she was happy she took her time and I knew she was happy for me as well as herself for the result so anyway so that was that yes did her I go back to the filler you’ve got painkillers you know it doesn’t hurt for long all the girls are there they all wanted to see my teeth so here’s my name yeah and one lady in particular and she’s having the same pretty much the same she’s going on tomorrow to have her teeth put in so she really wants to see and she wanted to make sure she picked the right color anyway back to the villa tiona looks after me of course and the girls will want to see my teeth and you have to really brush carefully until your gum holds around the tooth so I was worried about brushing my teeth because of the sensitivity nothing nothing you know and again today was the first time I woke up nothing no pain so I feel like they’re done end of thank you