Old dentists’ office walls are full of thousands of “buried teeth”

voidrabbits:

agentofawesome:

oldmanyellsatcloud:

mostlysignssomeportents:

For at least the third time, construction workers in Georgia have opened
up the walls of a former dentist’s office only to discover thousands of
teeth in the wall cavity.

The latest discovery was made at Valdosta, Georgia’s TB Converse
Building, built in 1900, in a dental office occupied by Dr Clarence
Whittington and then Dr Lester G Youmans, from 1900 until the 1930s.

Previous troves of entombed teeth have been discovered in old dentists’ offices n Greensboro and Carrolton.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/27/poor-r-value.html

>for at least the t h i r d t i m e

apparently the cool thing to do post-war was utilize the empty space between studs as a fucking sharps container because that could never cause a problem in the future

thanks boomers

ok but imagine opening a wall and all those teeth falling out,,,

I once saw a mid-century kids’ book that mentioned the razor slot and how the wall would end up full of razors, and I remembered it when i saw the article on the teeth, but is that literally what happened? Dear lord.

elodieunderglass:

scubabird:

theremina:

“Stress” by Yoan Capote

2004

Concrete and bronze

250 x 60 x 60 cms

Edition : –

Collection : Karen and Robert Duncan- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

This piece was inspired by the artist’s personal experience of grinding his teeth as a result of stress; but the work is also a monument to the collective experience of contemporary urban life. The artist went to a clinic in Havana and took the molds of teeth of several anonymous people; he reproduced those teeth in bronze and conjoined the molds in a linear fashion. The bronze teeth bear the weight of each 500 pound concrete block. The sculpture symbolically uses the notion of gravity, material and its weight to create the sculpture and the idea of burden; it also examines the meaning of teeth as an important part of the body used to establish identification or the identity of a person.

I don’t like this and it makes me uncomfortable but I also think it’s important to look at.

FINALLY ENOUGH TEETH

but yes, also, quite good art

shewhoworshipscarlin:

Woman’s elk tooth necklace, 1900s.

Elk-tooth jewelry totally used to be a Thing, and I only know this because a few weeks ago I watched an old movie in which the private-detective character, fairly late in the story, borrowed a police officer’s elk-tooth watch fob and put it in a fire to demonstrate that Teeth Don’t Burn and that’s why the dentist was killed and his x-rays stolen (because the victim of the previous murder had been his patient and he might have identified him by his teeth.)