And the winner is

Elleven announced  the winner of their life-changing competition - the National Smile Transformation.

Hundreds of people applied to enter, with 11 appearing on Facebook for public voting before the top five visited Elleven Dental to meet the team and undergo an all-important clinical examination.  This process was invaluable, to check suitability for treatment and to ensure that the winner would be responsible enough to maintain a good level of oral health to maintain the work achieved by the practice.

The winner, Julie Troman, was over the moon when she heard and explained what life is like for her at the moment: “I just can’t believe it. It’s going to change my life. Most of my teeth are loose; I’m in pain all the time and eating is a real problem for me. My teeth have badly affected my confidence and I never go out because I think people are looking at them.  You can change everything about yourself for yourself, but not your teeth, you need professional help. My teeth have taken over my life.  I look at everyone’s teeth – in magazines, TV everything.  I work delivering medicine to the elderly as I don’t feel they judge me – in fact some of the 90 year olds have got better teeth than me. I actually think I’ve been refused jobs because of my teeth. I’m happy to say that all my three boys have got perfect teeth and when my smile is transformed we’re going to have professional photos taken and I will be smiling!”