Jordan Hill has one wisdom tooth removed

Jordan Hill was back in uniform Saturday after missing the previous two games to have one wisdom tooth removed.

“I (have) to get all of them out,” Hill said before suiting up against the Detroit Pistons Saturday night. “They looked at it in the X-ray and I had to get all of them out. There was this one, a lower one [points to the left side of his lower jaw] that was giving me the most problems.”

Hill, 28, has been experiencing discomfort for about a month. That lower left one was causing headaches, for example. And so he had that one, and only that one, removed.

The tooth problem was not from any kind of hit or elbow to his mouth.

“Not from impact,” he explained. “It was just time. The wisdom tooth was coming in wrong, came in shifted, came in impacted. That one really hurt.

“I tried to play through it. Just took some Advil, some meds to calm it down.”

The Pacers forward was trying to hold off on surgery until after the NBA All-Star break, Feb. 12-14, but the pain from the lower left one became intolerable. He plans to get the other three taken out at that time.

“How are you going to play in the game and get your teeth out? Can you do that?” Solomon Hill joked postgame from a locker away, causing Hill to smile.

Hill, who joined the Pacers in the offseason on a one-year deal, has fit in nicely with the team. He has averaged 10 points and 7.7 rebounds per game in 28 appearances.

The Pacers lost both of the games Hill was out — at Chicago (by two, in overtime) and against Milwaukee (by four).