{"id":44885,"date":"2025-03-20T01:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T01:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=44885"},"modified":"2025-03-20T01:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T01:33:05","slug":"hahaha-hopefully-no-more-chipped-teeth-celtics-star-derrick-white-pays-visit-to-boston-dentist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=44885","title":{"rendered":"HAHAHA: \u2018Hopefully no more chipped teeth\u2019: Celtics star Derrick White pays visit to Boston dentist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/newspress-collage-4cr8dlmci-1718991722521.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;1718977405&amp;w=1200\" alt=\"Celtics' Derrick White has tooth back after NBA Finals sacrifice\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BOSTON (WHDH) &#8211; Celtics point guard Derrick White was at the dentist Wednesday to fix some damage his teeth have taken on the court.<\/p>\n<p>White got a bridge of four temporary teeth knocked out earlier this month against the Philadelphia 76ers. He originally got those teeth put in when he chipped his front teeth in Game 5 of the 2024 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>White said he\u2019d put off a trip to the dentist to get his replacements, but he was at Boston Dental Wednesday, visiting Dr. Maged el-Malecki, to get his winning smile fixed up permanently.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics star was encouraged by his dentist to start wearing a mouth guard during games to protect his teeth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never worn one through a whole game, and so it\u2019s going to take a little bit of adjustment, but one day this year, I will have a mouthpiece in,\u201d White said. \u201cFeeling good now and hopefully no more chipped teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White won\u2019t be the only one in the NBA using a mouth guard.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors\u2019 Steph Curry has famously worn one on the court, going all the way back to his college days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (WHDH) &#8211; Celtics point guard Derrick White was at the dentist Wednesday to fix some damage his teeth have taken on the court.White gotRead More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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