Lil Wayne -- Eight Root Canals in One Sitting

[cbdo2007]

Lil Wayne just had one of the gnarliest oral surgeries in the history of dentistry. We're told it was a marathon session that included a stomach-turning eight root canals at one time.

Our sources say Wayne went under the drill on Tuesday.

We're told during the eight hour procedure, Wayne had his grill worked on, several tooth implants redone, more implants added and had the few real teeth he had left repaired.

This is the critical dental surgery that kept Wayne from being shipped off to the big house last week.


Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2010/02/19/lil-wayne-eight-root-canals-in-one-sitting/#ixzz0fzWTKW6H
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I know this isn't political but damn that's a lot of root canals!!

[Jennicut]

1. Ouch. I had wisdom teeth out, 4 at once and it was painful. This would

be horrifying.

[JerseygirlCT]

6. I've had at least 7 root canals in my life

(blessed with crappy teeth). As a kid, it was pretty horrifying and painful. Now? Not so bad at all. For that much work, I wonder if they just put him under. Truly the worst of it for me is keeping my mouth cranked open like that, and my neck bent like that.

But yes, that's a whole lot of dental work!

[Jennicut]

13. The pain after the wisdom teeth were out was brutal.

That is what makes me go...ouch!

[JerseygirlCT]

14. I've had more than a few of them, too, lol

Although mine were already out, so it wasn't quite as involved. Two during a pregnancy, so just Novocaine. It was sore, but not too bad. My son had his removed and he was in a lot of pain for a few days.

Maybe I'm just way too used to dental procedures! The worse after a root canal is when your teeth aren't matching up right and the tooth gets quite angry. I hurt more this last time because of that. Just took grinding down some more of the tooth so it didn't hit the other one.

I imagine if I knew I was facing several at once, I'd just have them knock me out and get it all done at once - sort of like pulling a bandaid off, you know?

[mwb970]

2. Jeez, why all at once?

I'm having a dental reconstruction done, and I had two 4-hour "grindathon" appointments early this month, one for uppers, one for lowers. Couldn't L. Wayne have had it that way?

He would be better off if he had my dentist.

[peekaloo]

5. The prison dentist must've been booked solid.

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[MilesColtrane]

8. He wanted to get all of the diamonds and platinum out of his mouth before he...

reports to Rikers Island.

[JerseygirlCT]

15. Wow, is that ugly! nt

[gmoney]

17. How does someone eat with that stuff in their mouth?

does he brush with Crest or Brasso?

Hard to believe there are legitimate dentists who do that kind of dental mutilation.

[csziggy]

18. My mother-in-law had six root canals at one time a number of years ago

She felt a lot better to get all the infection out, but it did not do the job. Last fall she finally had the last of her teeth pulled and now has full dentures. Periodontal disease runs in that family and she never made sure all her children went to the dentist regularly.

Mr. csziggy had not been for ten years when I married him and I had to drag him in to mine. That went well until our dentist retired and it took a few years for us to find a new one. I had a root canal in October; Mr. csziggy had bone grafts the first of this month. I'm hoping that we can get back on a regular schedule of care and not need so much work in the future!

[muffin1]

3. I need to seek help.

My first reacton was, "Imagine the script he must have gotten"!:D

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Still more enjoyable than watching Palin give a speech.

[xultar]

11. +1 gillion brazillion million trillion billions

[LiberalFighter]

7. The last root canal I had was painless.

But 8 is nuts. And now he wanted to do something about his teeth?

[marmar]

9. Wayne just wanted all the way cool anesthetic gas they gave him....

nt

[left coaster]

10. Did he have dental insurance?

I guess he can afford to have all of that done, insurance or no..

[CanonRay]

12. He's a better man than me!

I think I'd opt for suicide if I had to face that.

[uncle ray]

16. if you think dental surgery is painful,

then you've never had real tooth pain. the surgery part is a great relief.

[Confusious]

20. Depends on the person

Filling fell out: no pain
tooth broke: no pain
Tooth ground down: no pain
Root canal: up until 4:00am, ran and got ambosol, slept with tube in my hand.

[salguine]

19. Lil Wayne had teeth? Of course, when you basically live on weed and cough syrup,

your teefus is gonna suffer. Knaamean?