LeAnn Rimes suffered with 'chronic pain' for years due to poor dental treatment

LeAnn Rimes suffered with "chronic pain" for years due to poor dental treatment.

The 42-year-old singer - who made headlines last month when her dental veneers fell out during mid-song during a concert - first had them at around the age of 16, before another dentist didn't bond the veneers correctly while redoing them at a later stage, which resulted in years of oral surgeries and multiple root canals.

Speaking to Flow Space magazine, she said: "I look at my pictures from that time, and my face was so different — it was just so swollen.

“Oh, it was awful. I was in chronic pain for, like, two-and-a-half years.”

The Can't Fight The Moonlight singer previously revealed to her fans that she was diagnosed with high-grade dysplasia last year.

The discovery was made when a routine Pap smear

after a routine Pap smear found pre-cancerous cells in her cervix.

She decided to be candid with her social media followers to try and encourage a more honest conversation about female health.

She added: “I just feel like it’s not something we talk about, and something so many women feel so much shame around."