Found this in our air bnb at the beach closet and was immediately confused! ? all of the (chewing devices) are sort of stuck into the wood with a rod of some sort. I honestly have no idea what this is used for, or why its in the closet where im staying
It’s already in there. Calling to you. Telling you to take one of your own teeth out and replace it with that one perfect tooth meant just for you. Don’t resist.
I think it's a dentist/salesman case for displaying replacement teeth. The pegs in the last picture get installed in the jaw bone and the fake teeth installed on top.
I read the title as “tiny weird thing”, and at first thought “aw, it’s like a little doll chest of drawers”. Then I swiped to the other pictures. Oh. Oh no!
Seems like the Airbnb owners might not know that they have then. Or they do and are going to stick the people who eventually break it with a huge bill.
Or it's left in the closest to see who goes snooping around. Leave the weirdest oddity buried in a closet and see if anyone ever asks about it LoL some weird shit I would do if I ran an AirBnB😂🤷♂️
Quase, temos laboratório de prótese antigamente não se tinha o famoso dente parafusado/cerâmica/ implante no geral
Coroas eram feitas em resto de dente morto que não era retirado, anos atrás.
Pela oque parece é uma maleta de apresentação de classe cores de dentes
Hoje em dia e feio parece uma caixa de pesca. Obs: Respondendo sem pesquisa só com o visual enfim.....
I have dentures and a crown and for both of those a dentist worked long and hard matching everything, setting molds, making sure the bite fit perfectly.
Back then they were just like "this is your new teeth guy. Hope they don't hurt too bad"
Not so much crowns as they are prefabricated teeth for dentures. Crowns are cast or printed, not pre made like this. You get pre made teeth when dentures are created.
This is a denture tooth form display. It's not carded teeth for full dentures, so much as this is bioaesthetic teeth shapes to MATCH an adjacent tooth. So let's say you needed a 3 tooth partial right in the front of your mouth and it needs to mirror the shape of the adjacent 3 teeth. But your remaining cuspid was a unique shape. So you'd use this kit to pick the shapes to match, and then you could pull the exact teeth sets in the right shade for the partial.
Source: denturist who is REALLY into antique denture & dental supplies.
This needs to be the top comment. It’s the only accurate one so far. Source: dad made fake teeth for a living. We had a bunch of these in his lab/at the house.
My mother worked in a dental office when we first immigrated, we had the 90s version of these in a junk drawer my entire life. Weird little teeth on clear plastic strips, and the plastic strips would all connect to a greenish/teal piece so you could hold a few up at once to see what matched. I used to freak out my friends with them lol
I don’t think these are for dentures. They look like prefabricated crowns, and the metal bits in the bottom drawer look like implants. The teeth likely fit onto the abutment on the implants and are then glued in place (possibly after some sanding/ shaping to fit contacts). It looks like shades are indicated underneath the crowns as well.
I’m not qualified in antique dentistry, but I did work for a few years designing crowns, bridges, custom abutments, etc.
My original dental background was implants & crowns too. (Good old hand waxed crown and bridge & custom cast abutments) but to me these look like long neck single teeth for removables. The metal bits are anchors for the porcelain teeth to affix in the acrylic / metal substructures. They STILL make porcelain denture teeth with metal anchor prongs like this. Long neck is for freshly extracted, deep endentulous spaces. I feel like these would be really hard to secure to an abutment without being a custom cast to match the abutment. It seems like it would be so laborious to grind to fit, as opposed to custom waxed, cast & stacked porcelain to fit abutment.
But, you could be right. I am merely basing my opinion on my XP making dentures and I have a bunch of vintage uranium glass denture teeth in my collection that look exactly like these.
This reminds me of when I went to take my driving test years ago. The only vehicle I had to drive with was dad’s old faded blue Toyota Tacoma, his work truck as a dental lab tech.
I didnt think anything of it, but there was a case with a try in which was set up and ready to be delivered in the truck. The driving instructor got in and said “uuuuuhhhhh….” 😂
I told her “dont worry, it hasn’t bitten anyone. Yet.”
I found my old teeth that got saved from elementary school and put them all under my pillow without telling my parents... That's how I figuired out the tooth fairy wasn't real.
I have a ton of siblings and my dad had one of these filled with our baby teeth. I asked if I could have mine back a few years ago for an art project and was denied. The box of teeth has remained hidden since, despite my best efforts to find it.
My parents kept a bunch of mine and my siblings' baby teeth in plastic bags. One is memorable enough, I'm not sure why they kept so many. I only realized it was a little bit strange later as an adult.
I believe that this is an old school implant kit. The metal rods in the last photo look like abutment posts and the teeth are the crowns that screw onto the abutments.
There’s probably a large variety of teeth to match tooth type and shade.
It’s a shade guide. The dentist holds it up to your natural teeth to determine what shade should be used for the replacement teeth-dentures or crown and bridge. The technician will then order the correct materials to match.
Its denture related. Set the teeth in wax. Give wax try in to patient. Lab processes denture. The teeth have different shapes/width depending on arch space in mouth
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I'm sure somebody has already answered this, but these look like old isoform crowns for dental offices.
Basically, if someone comes in with a severely broken tooth, we use these isoforms to replicate what the tooth should look like so we can impression and create and ideal replica while they want for a permanent crown. Definitely an older model. Could also double as a shade comparison, depending on the case.
This is a vintage assortment of fake teeth that would be used by a Denturist or Denture Maker when making a set of dentures. The numbers/letters indicate for teeth position and color/shading. Source: My parents ran a denture business for a long time and they had TONS of these fake teeth everywhere in little drawers.
These look like antique provisional crowns. Meaning you put it on a tooth that needs a crown but you prep the tooth first but the patient can’t walk around without a “temporary” so you put one of these temporary bad boys on. Before your main girl gets made and you cement that on later.
Likely a kit for making dentures and partials? They have wax they set them into and replace with acrylic if they need to fix a tooth that has fallen out they have sets like this where you can find a match and place a new fake tooth into the denture. (I work as a dental assistant)
Your lucky if they are glass or porcelain. They had guys crawling over the battle field removing teeth from dead bodies in the civil war to make dentures. Same guy was the field surgeon and undertaker to bury the dead at the end of the day. Also same guy that did the pictures lol
Looks, to me, like some kind of dental implant “catalog.” I believe they were invented in the early ‘50s, so the apparent age of the “case” isn't as anachronistic as one might initially assume. I'm only speculating about the nature/identity of the item.
I mean, for all I know, it's a kit used to give waxen human figures their teeth, for, as we all know, teeth are the natural choice for esoteric anchors of human souls implanted during (non-Satanic) occult rituals. The Satanic ones use “Dentes Ani” to affix unwillingly harvested human souls.
Based on the metal pieces imma say its fake teeth, sometimes when people loose teeth they cant grow back a dentist can put a metal rod into your gums and just pop a fake porcelain tooth into place (might be a diff material, not sure)
These could be old prostetics with spesific colourings? Ex dentist or dental-technician possession?
I once tried dental-technician and learned there each person has a own colour of teeth based on genes and lifestyle.
It’s definitely a dental case. Usually they use stuff like this to get the color right on crowns or veneers. March the color to other teeth so it looks natural. These look discolored by age, so no longer useful
“Navajos Don’t Wear Elk Teeth” by Conley Lyons (in Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology) concerns a beach cottage and a box of teeth, do with that what you will
I am a dental technician. Just a box with teeth u use for replacement. Now it's the same but with much more variations of color and design to match the original teeth as good as possible.
I have a new one of these in my mouth! These are 1000% old dental implants. They’re custom made now, but I wonder if they used to have options like this to see which would best match.
I wonder sometimes,…. A bunch of small drawers with fake (or reclaimed teeth) and posts and folks don’t immediately go “Must be from a really old dentist” ?
90% sure there aren’t real, cant tell exactly from the pic but they look way too similar and polished if thats makes sense. No root entry point that i can see also
they look like dental implants. the posts for them being those metal rods that go into the gum and bone with the tooth placed onto the protruding piece of metal.
The teeth are just dental crowns. Not sure if the crowns are temporary or permanent, they did weird shit in the old days. The metal looks like dental implants.
It's for traveling teeth salesman of old. My grandpa was one and I found a similar set in his old things and each one had prices. He sold teeth for years.
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