00:00I prefer to eat with my gums.
00:04Melinda Amaris has been left with piles of paperwork, half her superannuation missing
00:09and without the teeth she wanted.
00:11I went and saw Supercare Dental because I was having issues, I'm going to cry sorry, lacking
00:18self confidence.
00:20Supercare Dental and Cosmetics helped the single mum withdraw $48,000 from her superannuation
00:26to fix her teeth with implants.
00:28She's been left with a broken overdenture stuck together with superglue.
00:32The product that I've ended up with is absolutely horrific and uncomfortable, I wouldn't be
00:37better off with the teeth that I had.
00:40The company's Katara and Tuggera clinics were put into voluntary administration last month
00:45owing dentists hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:48A report to creditors says the company traded while insolvent and more than 400 patients
00:53appear to have paid over $2.1 million for dental work that's yet to be delivered.
00:59Much of that's likely to have come from superannuation.
01:02We've been tracking this kind of behaviour for some time.
01:05We've seen practices of people being coached in order to get money out of super.
01:11The amount of money Australians have withdrawn from superannuation to fund dental treatment
01:15has more than tripled over the past three years.
01:18Someone say in their thirties that take out $50,000 can be more than $100,000 worse off
01:24by the time they retire.
01:26Supercare Dental and Cosmetics didn't respond to multiple requests for comment.
01:30One of the companies involved has now been wound up, but patients have been left in limbo.
01:35Is this what I'm going to be stuck with for the rest of my life because that's how it feels.
01:41I don't have the money to fix it.
01:43A creditors meeting will be held tomorrow.
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