{"id":469089,"date":"2026-02-24T04:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:36:44","slug":"dr-jason-auerbach-reveals-what-work-jack-hughes-needs-after-tooth-knocked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469089\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jason Auerbach Reveals What Work Jack Hughes Needs After Tooth Knocked Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ice hockey star Jack Hughes<\/a> turned the ice red before he turned it gold — flashing a blood-soaked, tooth-jacked grin after burying Team USA\u2019s crowning goal … but one top doc says that smile might need a whole lot more than a victory lap to recover!<\/p>\n

Dr. Jason Auerbach — board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon for the New Jersey Devils — broke it down for us on “TMZ Live” Monday, telling us the 24-year-old looks like he fractured his left front tooth, possibly shoved another out of place, and may have even rattled his upper jaw. Ouch.<\/p>\n

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Watch the clip — the doc goes full dental dictionary on us, spelling out how Hughes is probably staring down serious restorative work, starting with a quick temporary fix while swelling peaks in the first 48 hours.<\/p>\n

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As for the full smile comeback? Could take weeks — longer if surgery’s in play. For the full bite-by-bite breakdown, hear it straight from Dr. Auerbach.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Jack shrugged the injury off to reporters Monday … saying in hockey, losing a tooth happens. He did acknowledge he was disappointed when he felt a tooth was missing, but no panic here. He says he\u2019ll get it fixed — because that gold-medal grin is coming back.<\/p>\n


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ICYMI — Hughes took a stick to the mouth from Sam Bennett in the third period of the men\u2019s hockey final at the Milan Cortina Games on Sunday … then casually went on to score the gold-medal goal<\/a>. Talk about biting back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content TMZSports.com Ice hockey star Jack Hughes turned the ice red before he turned it gold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,40,43,86,2620],"class_list":{"0":"post-469089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-news","12":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116123756564131015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}