Andy Giddings,<\/span>West Midlands<\/span>and<\/span><\/p>\n Mark Elliott,<\/span>Radio Shropshire<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n A woman who needs reconstructive surgery after dental work in Turkey failed says she is being kept going by a need to warn others of the dangers.<\/p>\n Leanne Abeyance, 41, from Telford – who underwent a so-called “Turkey teeth” operation – was left unable to breathe through her nose, which then collapsed days before she underwent an implant removal operation. <\/p>\n She remains in constant pain, which she controls with sleeping tablets and morphine every day, and feels too self-conscious to go outside.<\/p>\n “It doesn’t get any easier, but I’m glad that it’s touched so many people,” Abeyance said. “I just want to chop my head off and start again.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She had started using a prosthetic nose but had to stop after suffering an allergic reaction.<\/p>\n In the week before the implant-removal operation at Guy’s Hospital in London, she said her septum “came apart” and would not stop bleeding.<\/p>\n “I got my mum round, I got everyone round. I actually said goodbye to my little girls, because I thought I was going to die, I thought I was going to get sepsis and die,” Abeyance said.<\/p>\n The failed dental work has also led her to develop auto-immune conditions that are causing damage to her face and have made it painful to eat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Abeyance admits that she probably should have waited for reconstructive surgery instead of opting for a prosthetic nose. <\/p>\n “[But] when something is on your face like this everyone stops and stares at you,” she said.<\/p>\n Her injuries have “affected everything”, including relationships, she said.<\/p>\n “I don’t want to go out anywhere, I don’t want to see anybody,” she said. <\/p>\n “Who wants to see somebody with bandages on their face? Who wants somebody who’s crying in pain every day?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Leanne](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/08af\/live\/675626d0-f5f4-11f0-a745-635c33f47272.jpg.webp\")
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Leanne Abeyance<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘Doing this for everybody else’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n