Jewelry You Can Sink Your Teeth Into

By Johnny Cat in Art, Fashion on Jan 5, 2010 at 1:17 pm

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Silversmith and offbeat artist Polly van der Glas creates jewelry made from human teeth, hair, and sterling silver. Aside from rings, she also makes necklaces, earrings, purses and more.

All works are handmade in Melbourne, with sterling silver, human hair and human teeth. Human teeth are locally donated and sterilised, and human hair is either locally donated or sourced from India and China.

Teeth are particularly difficult to come by, so any donations are gratefully accepted.

Link (Photo via OddityCentral.)

Tags: Arts & Crafts, jewelry, Odd, ring, teeth, tooth

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1 Lucky Texan
Jan 5th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Pssshaaww!

DECADES ago I glued bell caps to my recently removed wisdom teeth and kept them on a keychain. i THINK I still have them somewhere…

I dunno if it’s still in force, but Florida was floating the idea of not allowing folks/kids to take extracted teeth with them due to ‘medical waste’ issues.
Another Jake
Jan 5th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
That metal work looks horrible. Are these made by highschool metalshop workers? 101.
christine
Jan 5th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
yuck!!
Jeffos
Jan 5th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Years ago my dad had a pair of cuff links made with his wisdom teeth mounted on them. I am now the proud owner.
felixthecat
Jan 5th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I want a piece of jewelry made with my excised gall bladder to give as a present to my wife.
tigergal39
Jan 5th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
One word.

GROSS!
error404
Jan 5th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
I’m a silversmith amongst other things, and I built a bezel mounted wisdom tooth ring in about 1990, using my own wisdom tooth.

The bezel mounts look pretty ugly, maybe they’re not made from fine silver as they should be.

fine silver is different from strlng silver.
ted
Jan 5th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I must agree about the handicraft of that jewellery. Not very professional-looking at all.
sadtomato
Jan 5th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
This will give me nightmares.
Jessss
Jan 5th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
I would never donate my teeth to create a monstrocity such as this.
quinnnchick
Jan 6th, 2010 at 1:45 am
I’m jealous. I have not been allowed to keep any of my extracted teeth. wisdom or otherwise. I was told they were bio-hazard and could not be released.

and Another Jake, is there still HS shop class anymore?
Larfin Jackarse
Jan 6th, 2010 at 4:23 am
That is Melbourne, Australia again.
error404
Jan 6th, 2010 at 4:47 am
So it is, I live in Melbourne too
Ally
Jan 6th, 2010 at 10:28 am
This is actually a very common practice in Costa Rica, where I’m from. When little girls lose their baby teeth some parents will have them set into a pair of earrings that the child will usually wear into adolescence.
Dragonflye
Jan 6th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
When I got my wisdom teeth removed, I was walked from the dental office dazed and sore, packed with cotton in my mouth. The nurse handed me a cup and I looked at her, confused.

She said “Those are your teeth, honey.”

I looked down and they were twisted, still bloody and one of them had been sheared in half to make removal easier.

I wanted to throw up.

The last thing I could imagine would be making it into jewellery.
fulanoche
Jan 6th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Meyer Wolfshiem from The Great Gatsby.

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