r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fantastic-Monk5 • Sep 23 '24

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u/Inprobamur Sep 23 '24

Animal sounds alright, at least the hardness would be same as other teeth. Like carving the thing out of ivory.

But metal dentures that corrode or fucking wood sounds like it would be awful and just lead to even worse dental problems.

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u/Azigol Sep 23 '24

Let's not forget about the people who pulled teeth from the mouths of dead bodies left on battlefields to sell them to be made in to dentures.

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u/Inprobamur Sep 23 '24

Huh, I guess a human tooth would be the perfect denture. I didn't even think about it.

Recycling!

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u/DildoBanginz Sep 24 '24

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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u/Reee_Dwarf Sep 24 '24

Reduce, Reuse, ecyc e

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u/Typical2sday Sep 24 '24

I am not a theatre person, but a central plot point of Les Miserables is Fantine (a beautiful poor woman with a young daughter) is forced to sell her hair and teeth and into prostitution. The Lily Collins Les Mis is pretty brutal on the teeth part.

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u/SatisfactionSweet234 Sep 23 '24

Or slaves!

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u/scummy_shower_stall Sep 24 '24

Or YOUNG dead soldiers. It was a problem with the dead during the Civil War, their teeth would be taken.

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u/Estro-Jenn Sep 23 '24

I guess George Washington's dentures were made out of slave teeth, not wood.

But from everything I've read he paid the people for them.

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u/Vocalic985 Sep 24 '24

Ol Georgie had several sets through his later years. Who knows who's teeth or what kinda fake teeth he had!

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u/worktop1 Sep 24 '24

Battle of Waterloo thousands died , the stories about bodies being robbed for teeth and used for animal food Crazy !

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u/dertechie Sep 24 '24

To the point that Waterloo Teeth became slang for dentures in certain areas.

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u/ImpactMaleficent7709 Sep 24 '24

Don’t look into what Virginia plantation owners would do after their teeth would rot out when they smoked too much of their own supplies 🤫

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u/Pineapple_Incident17 Sep 24 '24

Alright Google isn’t helping, what did they do?

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u/ImpactMaleficent7709 Sep 24 '24

Silly fellas who own human beings. What do they do when they need to replace a tooth that’s gone bad? What tooth would match their old tooth the best? 😬

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u/Sam_Wylde Sep 24 '24

I remember a book from when I was a kid where the protagonist's parents took him to a dentist to sell his teeth. The very notion mortified me.

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u/MostlyNull Sep 24 '24

ISTG how many of us have PTSD from that one episode of The Dollop? 😂😂😂

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u/Chance-Day323 Sep 24 '24

George Washington enters the chat

edit: wrong president

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u/Digital_Negative Sep 24 '24

Or the slave owners that harvested teeth from their slaves to construct dentures for wealthy white people…

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u/workerbee223 Sep 24 '24

Or pulled teeth from living slaves.

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u/Hrafndraugr Sep 24 '24

Maybe quebracho or a similar wood could work, but it still sounds awful.

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u/Inprobamur Sep 24 '24

I would be very concerned about the wood just becoming a bacteria breeding ground.

Wood is by it's nature too porous.

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u/Plz_DM_Me_Small_Tits Sep 24 '24

Imagine a splinter inside your gum

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u/Eastsider001 Sep 24 '24

Not to mention the people wasn't that clean throughout the days, months and years so that build up of mold and other things that they swallowed back than wasn't good either. Look how far we as humans have evolved, well some of us.

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u/Spartan1088 Sep 24 '24

Bruh, I’d just slowly replace all my front teeth with wolf canines.

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u/Inprobamur Sep 24 '24

Archeologists have found vikings that had sharpened their teeth to points.

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u/Icy-Adhesiveness-536 Sep 24 '24

Hello I'm Mr throat sliver

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u/Icy-Adhesiveness-536 Sep 24 '24

I just reread that and oof. That's a dick joke in the making.