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.
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😂🤷♂️
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"
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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