Thursday, February 11, 2010

Dentist Talks About Lil Waynes Tooth Problem.....


Earlier this week we learned that Rapper Lil'Wayne would have his jail sentencing delayed, Until March 2nd, due to tooth surgery that he has to have. With all the media and blogs buzzing about how Wayne "Got off" for two weeks MTV.com caught up with Dr.Sherry Rudd who weighed in about the situation.....But when did it get this serious about Lil Wayne's teeth?


Dr. Sherry Rudd, who has 13 years of dental experience in private practice and working with inmates, said that although she doesn't know Wayne's exact ailment, the symptoms — a cracked tooth, 10 days of recovery time, his propensity for sweets and the condition of his teeth — point toward the lyricist having an infection.

The malady is compounded further, she said, by the gold and diamonds encrusted on the rapper's teeth.

"He probably has a bad tooth, a tooth that's abscessed," Dr. Rudd explained to MTV News on Wednesday (February 10). "With having all of [gold and diamond material] in his mouth, it's going to be really difficult to get clean because of all of the different crevices. I don't know if they're bridges or if they are all individual. But if it's going to be two weeks [from surgery to recovery], then I don't think he's going to get them all off, because of the potential damage. Without knowing what's exactly there, it's probably decayed and the decay got into the nerve, which causes the nerve to die."

If that's the case, a decaying tooth, which is possible given the rapper's reliance on Orajel, could be treated in a variety of ways.

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