Warriors forward David Lee had his second surgical procedure to flush out an infection in his left elbow Monday.

Lee got a puncture wound from Wilson Chandler's tooth in the third quarter of Golden State's win over the Knicks last Wednesday.

"We tend to underestimate it, but those are just bad wounds," Dr. Bill Maloney said. "A mouth is so dirty that when there's a puncture wound, it often ends up just like this. We see them most typically on a Saturday night in the ER when somebody gets into a bar brawl."

Maloney said the infection may have to be washed out four or five times.

"Everybody wants him to get better and go back and play quickly, but the mistake we're trying to avoid is letting him get back too soon and letting it get stirred up again," Maloney said. "I would like to see the tissue return to its normal appearance, the wound to be completely healed and for him to have normal elbow function."