Dentist Shaadi Manouchehri has called out Tiktok trends which encourage people to carry out dangerous DIY dentistry, and suggests how dental professionals can reduce the risk.
A number of alarming DIY dental trends are currently surfacing on Tiktok.
For example, removing braces with a spoon, ‘how to make your own veneers’ and filing teeth into fangs are amongst the wave of dental trends on the social media app.
As a result, some dentists have taken to calling out these harmful trends.
One such dentist is Dr Shaadi Manouchehri, a London-based dentist with a significant following on Tiktok. She has expressed that, while many trends can be harmless, the recent wave of DIY dentistry on the social media app can be harmful and dangerous.
In addition, she has suggested how dental professionals should approach this issue and reduce the risk to their patients.
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Dr Shaadi Manouchehri
New videos emerge daily on social media platforms such as Tiktok to introduce new clever hack that promise to save us money and time.
Although the majority of these hacks can be useful and harmless for many of us to try out, some of these hacks can be quite dangerous and even cause harm.
These include health related hacks of individuals with no medical or dental training trying out DIY dentistry and advising others to do the same in order to save them time and avoid expensive dental bills.
What many of these individuals fail to consider is not only the obvious material risks of damaging teeth but also the reparative treatment that they then commit themselves to which can end up costing them far more that the original treatment.
This comes not only as a financial cost to the patient but also at a biological cost to the tissues. It’s therefore important for dental healthcare professionals to continue to react to these videos and raise awareness of the risks of these ‘hacks’.
Tiktok is a great platform with millions of daily users and incredible reach of informative videos.
With the current impact of social media on the general public, the dental profession must adapt and use this new way of reaching the public and delivering information which can help increase awareness.
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