Collecting extracted teeth: best solution mixture?

[harjay]

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As I begin to send out jars for my tooth collection, I have come across a couple suggestions for best solutions in which to store the extracted teeth. Of d-students who had to collect it for simlab work, have you noticed any fellow students getting better results with different chemical mixtures?
I've heard from several sources that using bleach water makes the teeth brittle, even though that's the most common method. 😕

1:10 bleach:water
1:1 Alcohol:water
formaldehyde
1:10 formalin:water (formalin = formaldehyde?)
1:1 pinesol:water
1:1 alcohol:formaldehyde

I realize there's probably a very subtle difference between alot of them, but I haven't ever stored teeth so any help would be appreciated 😉

 

[armorshell]

Moving to the dental forum

 

[armorshell]

Personally, I've been digging through random jars of teeth, and have recently prepped on teeth that have been stored in bleach, listerine and heat sterilized and they all feel about the same. Listerine will turn cementum, dentin, composite and anything organic a beautiful blue color.

Also, you can add glycerine to the bleach mixture to possibly make the teeth less brittle. Pinesol sounds like a, well, weird idea.

 

[Lopyswine]

how much glycerin do you add?

 

[harjay]

When I put my first jars together, my dad [dentist] suggested Glycerol/water mix with a few drops of oil of wintergreen. ....Dentists/assistants would rather open a jar that smells like wintergreen that one that smells like bleach or formaldehyde (what a clever guy🙄)

I was concerned about this though because theres nothing in there to kill the bacteria. So I'll probably use glycerol with formaldehyde or bleach water

 

[ajam]

I got a letter about this from my school:

"Any non-breakable leak-proof container with a 10% Formalin solution may be used to collect teeth."

Google, for a nice definition of Formalin:

"Formalin is a saturated solution of formaldehyde, water, and typically another agent, most commonly methanol. In its typical form, formalin is 37% formaldehyde by weight (40% by volume), 6-13% methanol, and the rest water. A quick glance at any commercially available formalin product will confirm these numbers. Formaldehyde provides the disinfectant and bacteriacide/germacide effects of formalin. The water content of formalin provides a dilution of formaldehyde; the methanol content stabilizes the naturally chemically unstable formaldehyde compound."

As harjay's father points out, a little wintergreen can't hurt, too!

 

[dreaming2k5]

The official formula from our endo prof is 2 parts bleach, 3 parts glycerin, 5 parts water. - you can fudge it a bit -- doesn't have to be exact.

When the tooth is still fresh, put into 1 part bleach, 4 parts water for a couple days first.

 

[tamkhan]

The official formula from our endo prof is 2 parts bleach, 3 parts glycerin, 5 parts water. - you can fudge it a bit -- doesn't have to be exact.

When the tooth is still fresh, put into 1 part bleach, 4 parts water for a couple days first.

We don't have to collect anything for BU, do we?

 

[Streetwolf]

My operative professor told me in an email and later in person to use 1 part bleach to 3 parts water (25% bleach). I have heard 1:10 in this forum and that's a pretty big jump, but if I do what she says and something screws up then she can't blame me. Well she can but I know it isn't my fault.

 

[Gunner McGee]

This is HANDS DOWN the best mix out there:

1/3 dog urine
1/2 malibu tropical rum
and fill the rest with thiophenol (you'll have to get in touch with your o-chem professor for this one)

 

[armorshell]

This is HANDS DOWN the best mix out there:

1/3 dog urine
1/2 malibu tropical rum
and fill the rest with thiophenol (you'll have to get in touch with your o-chem professor for this one)

Still, I bet this would work just as well as everything else. Who cares, just throw them in something remotely antibacterial and you'll be fine?

 

[54807]

Still, I bet this would work just as well as everything else. Who cares, just throw them in something remotely antibacterial and you'll be fine?

No

 

[hlsawdust]

Only need a few drops our profs told us, but I dumped about a tsp in my mason jar just in case (16oz I think?) - apparently it acts as a decent lubricant to protect the teeth from excessively drying out once you take it out (but even mounted in stone, we were told to seal them in plastic bags with wet paper towels).

 

[heyamandi]

our endo dept says to use plain old yellow listerine (doesn't stain & won't make teeth brittle).