A man who suffered from years of agonising tooth pain felt too self-conscious to smile after his childhood dentist failed to spot the signs of serious decay.
Danny Hyde, 22, from Southport, lost one of his teeth when he was still a teenager due to the decay which had festered in three of his teeth.
He said: “To be going through all of this at a young age was really emotionally damaging. I hated smiling and had emotional issues during my teenage years as I felt so self-conscious and worried about what people would think if they saw my teeth. I found the whole experience very emotionally stressful."
