LeAnn Rimes Has Another Reason Not to Get Veneers

If you still need convincing about the perils of veneers, let LeAnn Rimes serve as your cautionary tale. The country-pop singer has recently been opening up about how getting the procedure — which involves grinding your natural teeth down and gluing fake teeth on top — has led to a lifetime of dental issues.

In an interview with Flow Space published on Monday, Rimes revealed she first got veneers when she was 16. She later got them redone, she said, but the dentist apparently didn’t correctly bond the veneers. As a result of the botched procedure, Rimes underwent several oral surgeries and root canals over the span of a decade. “It was awful,” she said. “I was in chronic pain for, like, two and a half years.” She recalled looking at photos of herself from the time and noticing that “my face was so different — it was just so swollen.” (In 2013, Rimes sued a Los Angeles dentist for allegedly giving her veneers that led to “severe tooth pain, gum inflammation, and chronic gum bleeding.”)

Rimes’s dental challenges didn’t end there — last month, she revealed that her teeth recently fell out in the middle of a concert. “I was onstage, and in the middle of ‘One Way Ticket,’ I feel something pop in my mouth,” she said in an Instagram video. “If you’ve been around, you know I’ve had a lot of dental surgeries, and I have a bridge in the front, and it fell out in the middle of my song.”

Rimes is not the only celebrity sharing disastrous veneer stories of late. Last week, Alix Earle revealed she got veneers shortly after finishing college and that one of them chipped during a recent cruise trip. Bad Bunny and Kehlani have also said they regret getting veneers. Consider me dissuaded.

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