Tiger Woods had one tooth under par, and judging from his account of how he lost the chomper, it was pretty painful.
We reported last week how Tiger got defanged while surprise visiting his girlfriend Lindsey Vonn, who was competing at the Alpine Skiing World Cup in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
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So…
Who was the culprit? A photographer! And his weapon of choice? A video camera.
Here was Tiger’s side of the tooth story:
“Dude with one of the video cameras was kneeling right in front of me, stood up, turned and caught me square in the mouth. He chipped that one, cracked the other one…. And so then, you know, I’m trying to keep this thing on so the blood’s not all over the place, and luckily he hit the one that I had the root canal on. That’s the one that chipped, but the other one had to be fixed as well because it had cracks all through it.”
In order to get some much needed dental health, Tiger had to travel all the way back to Florida, on a flight which he called a “joke”:
“I couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink until [the dentist] fixed them, put the temporaries on. I couldn’t have anything touch it. Even breathing hurt, because any kind of air over the nerve, the tooth that was still alive, was cracked.”
This sounds like a dental nightmare!
We hope Tiger is no longer experiencing pain, and can, well, SMILE!