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Most of the players' mouths are in great shape. This season, the team has lost only 15 teeth.

Center Nate Thompson, who had a front tooth knocked out during Game 4 against the Capitals, still has a gap — but the hole healed well.

And they would keep an eye on Marty St. Louis. A stick blade to the mouth in Game 1 against the Penguins had loosened the forward's teeth, necessitating a double root canal. In Game 2 of the Capitals series, he got whacked again twice, requiring the dentist to cement three of his teeth back in.

There isn't time to finish St. Louis' root canals until after the season. So team dentist Sam Caranante built a tooth cast of reinforced resin, stuffed some cotton around St. Louis' gums and tried to ease his pain.

"For a little guy," Castro said, "that Marty is real tough."

The Lighting had lost to the Bruins. No one had been hurt.

But St. Louis' teeth were still aching. Behind the cotton packing, his gums were swollen. Castro and Sam Caranante worked on the forward for 40 minutes, draining pus and trying to stabilize his teeth.

They don't know if he will be able to keep all three. But they patched him up enough to get him back out on the ice tonight.

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Of all the hockey horror, team dentists agreed, Craig MacDonald's was the worst. On Dec. 20, 2007, a puck smashed into MacDonald's face, fracturing nine teeth, only three of which could be salvaged. He also required 25–30 stitches to close a cut in his tongue and an additional 50 inside his lip and gums. MacDonald underwent three root canal surgeries the next morning.