A woman has gone viral on TikTok for showing off her dentures, after revealing that all of her teeth fell out following weight loss surgery.
Cathy Blythe, 33, from Michigan, US, had a gastric bypass in 2011 and lost more than nine stone, but has suffered scores of problems since – particularly with her teeth.
Despite taking supplements daily since the operation, Cathy noticed herself becoming anaemic and had low vitamin levels, which had a terrible impact on her teeth.
“Before my bypass, my natural teeth were perfect and healthy,” Cathy, who runs her own business selling crystals and minerals, told Jam Press.
“Until I was 24, I had never even had a cavity. But a few years after the bypass my teeth became fragile and weak.
“I had lots of cavities and my teeth were breaking off.
“Over the last eight years I have spent a lot of money trying to save my teeth.”
Cathy had numerous fillings, crowns and root canal treatments but said “nothing could save them".
She added: “I could have spent thousands more dollars but nothing was guaranteed that I wouldn’t need dentures soon anyway."
In December 2020, after discovering a TikTok star who was open about using dentures, the business owner decided to finally have her remaining broken teeth removed in favour of a full set of dentures.
Cathy received the full set in January this year and hopes to get implants within the next few years.
She has shared her journey on TikTok to help other people who might also be struggling with the decision to get dentures – and part of this is making light of them.
Cathy recently went viral for sharing a video of herself parked in her car and waggling her teeth at passers-by.
In the hilarious clip, she can be seen sitting in her car at a red light and pops out her bottom dentures with her tongue.
She shakes them and waits for someone to notice – to no avail.
The post has been viewed more than 2.9 million times so far and racked up 830,000 likes.
One person commented: “I’m sorry but if I saw that I would scream and crash.”
“You got a fking reaction out of me omg,” another shocked viewer said. [sic]
Someone else commented: “I feel like I would just stare and scream. What are they supposed to do?”
“Haha I’d run the red light out of fear,” another person said.
One fan said she loves the humour Cathy brings to the subject, while another person shared that their grandmother had once done the same thing to make people laugh.
Someone else said: “I genuinely think this is the hardest I’ve laughed at a TikTok tbh.” [sic]
Cathy believes making light-hearted videos about her dentures helps reduce the stigma around young people wearing them.
She often gets comments asking why she would need them and says some assume it is due to drugs or poor dental hygiene.
The TikTokker added: “I want to help people realise that people of all ages have dentures for all different reasons.
“When I had my gastric bypass surgery they weren’t recognising that the surgery could have very negative effects on your dental health, even if you are doing everything right, but they now are and have done some research and studies on the matter.
“Before someone gets the surgery I believe they should be warned about what could happen – I constantly have people tell me the same thing happened to their teeth.”
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