A dental grill, one form of the hip-hop jewelry sometimes called "bling-bling." Source of image: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0410062teeth1.html
If all you want for Christmas is to gild your front teeth, you may have to buy the bling-bling somewhere other than the Gold Plaza II kiosk at Crossroads Mall.
That’s because an employee of that shop, Bhavin Dalal, faces a felony charge of practicing dentistry without a license. He’s accused of helping customers fit their teeth for glittering mouthpieces known as grills.
It’s the first such case in Nebraska involving the hot hip-hop fashion accessory. And Dalal and his attorney, James Martin Davis, plan to fight it tooth and nail.
Dalal entered a not guilty plea Friday in Douglas County Court. Davis blasted the Nebraska Health and Human Services System for its investigation of Dalal and the charge that resulted.
"It’s overzealousness on the part of a bunch of bureaucrats" who don’t want people to wear grills, Davis said.
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(Note: the slightly different online title for the article is: "State puts bite on grill seller")