Comedy actor Tim Marriott was recently forced to seek emergency dentistry after injuring himself playing cricket.
According to Dentistry.co.uk, he badly damaged his front teeth after the ball came off the top edge of the bat and smashed into his face as he attempted to hit a boundary.
The incident left Marriott, who played Gavin in 1990s sitcom The Brittas Empire, with a front tooth fractured through the nerve after the match in Kent.
“I rang around to find an emergency dentist and I had almost given up before I managed to secure an emergency appointment,” he told the website.
The dentist, a board member of the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, carried out a laser assisted root filling procedure to repair Marriott’s tooth within two hours.
Writing in the Scottish Daily Record earlier this month, Glasgow dentist Dr Philip Friel said cosmetic dentistry can be used to repair teeth that become chipped during sporting events.
