The NHL’s Shocking Smile Secret: Why Star Players Choose Missing Teeth Over Fixes

That, however, will wait until he retires. The risk is not worth the reward.

“If it happens again and you have the fake one in over the post and it breaks the post, the post can actually break the bone. That could be a major surgery,” Brown says. “You try not to get that. Guys will get little pieces of the teeth fixed. But if you’re getting a whole new one stuck up there, it can break the base if you get another injury to it.”

A player could roll the dice that the odds are low of having the same area smashed multiple times. But the severity of such an outcome goes hand in hand with the likelihood of teeth being exposed to injury.

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