Slapshot, Meet Smile: Inside the Craziest Job in Sports - The NHL Dentist

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🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Pucks to the mouth. Teeth flying to the ice. Hockey players aren't known for their perfect smiles. But have you ever wondered who exactly comes to the rescue mid-game, after a player takes a slapshot to the teeth, and gets him back on the ice? Enter the world of NHL dentists - the brave heroes who put hockey players' notorious grins back together. ESPN writer Dave Fleming takes Mina Kimes on a gory, grueling journey of mouth molds, chiclets, emergency surgery, and more tales of dental hockey horror. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thornton just, oh, he just clips him right, right in the mouth. There you go. You'll
0:05.2	have to just spend a little time with the dentist tomorrow. Perfect. Just what he wants to do.
0:11.1	It might just be the toughest job in sports, a job filled with blood and gore, it requires split-second
0:18.2	thinking and years of intense preparation.
0:22.2	Brace yourself.
0:28.5	Today, we explore the secret life of dentists in the National Hockey League.
0:30.3	You guys know the drill.
0:31.6	I'm Mina Kimes.
0:37.8	It's Thursday, November 7th, and this is ESPN Daily, sponsored by Dell Small Business.
0:45.5	Dave, incredible investigative journalism here.
0:47.6	This is really your molar report.
0:50.1	Wow, that's where we're starting?
0:51.4	That is where we're starting.
0:56.0	Dave Fleming is a senior writer for ESPN. Can you walk me through how a hockey player loses a tooth on the ice?
1:00.0	It's actually a really good question because it speaks to kind of what I love about hockey
1:04.0	and what I think doesn't translate on television especially is the speed and the violence
1:10.0	and the moving parts in hockey,
1:11.6	there's nothing to compare to it in sports.
1:16.6	You've got all these guys moving at 20 miles an hour,
1:20.6	wearing razor blades on their feet,
1:23.6	with sticks flailing everywhere,
1:26.6	boards coming up fast,
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