Teeth For Travis

[🪦 Ben_Forsaken ●]

Yup it\'s my first pair of teeth. I tried to make them \'perfect\' rather then monstrous so I\'d have a nice reference for sculpting teeth, etc. I went to a local dentist and he\'s been letting me hang out in his lab and read his books. I took some old impressions he had of an elderly woman who had no teeth whatsoever, and poured a stone mold of her gums and mounted them, (somewhat sloppily) on an old articulater he had. Then I covered the gums with a thick layer of wax. 22mm on the maxillary and 18mm on the mandibular. Then just used a bunson burner and some hot wax tool to melt the wax and place the teeth into the posistions I wanted. I read ALOT of dental books and learned about the Curve of Spee (the way the back teeth rise up) and the Curve of Wilson (the way the back teeth curve inward) and studied lingual occlusion which is the look I was going for. Having the inner cusps of the maxillary molars resting in the middle of the mandibular molars. The teeth were made from alginate molds of real teeth and were made with a 2 part polymer/monomer acrylic. And I used 2 different shades of acrylic to try and give the incisol edges a slight translucency like real teeth. Unfortunetely the translucency isn\'t showing up very well in the pics.

Mostly I just read a hell of alot about dentistry and denturism and was lucky enough to find a local dentist who was willing to let me hang out in his office and use his lab as long as I gave him a hand when he asked. Got to see alot of crazy extractions and stuff too. He even let me build a bridge of 6 teeth, from bi-cuspid to bi-cuspid for a patient. Which I was glad to do and really almost \'honored\' that my art was going permanantly in someones mouth.

Hope that answered any questions Dan.

Btw, your teeth look cool, and I will be making a custom set of \'Bubba\' teeth for Travis.