collecting teeth

[clp]

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for all you kids in dschool now: did you have to collect loads of teeth before you went to school? and if so, did you just call up an oral surgeon or two and ask if you could have them? about how long before i start school should i be looking to collect some teeth?

 

[Tennisgirl]

I assume you need teeth for your endo course. Find out when you guys take endo, and then you can plan based on that. The oral surgery group that i collected from was a really busy practice. i needed teeth for January of 2nd year and i gave them a jar about a month beforehand, but the earlier the better. Unless if your oral surgeon is a family member/friend, talk to the assistants who work there, they will be in charge of either discarding the teeth or saving them for you. We really only needed 15-20 good teeth, and none of them could be 3rd molars, so if you have a lot of teeth, it won't hurt. you'll use them later on or trade with your classmates. Hope this helps!

 

[Utes]

How many parts bleach to how many parts of water do you soak the teeth in?

 

[Tennisgirl]

I think after the teeth were autoclaved, i soaked them in a 1:10 bleach:water solution. Keep as many anterior teeth as possible, they're usually all 1 canal, super straight, great for building up the confidence that the 3-4 canals that all seem to be curved in the molars will take away 🙂

 

[hockeydentist]

How many parts bleach to how many parts of water do you soak the teeth in?

Formalin fixation treatment should do the trick, if you can get a hold of it.

 

[divertete]

Absolutely start collecting now, and give jars out to several offices. Some schools use the teeth for more than endo -- we need tons of non-third molars for crown preps. Just get a small plastic jar with a secure lid, attach a biohazard sticker and a label with your contact info (in case it gets full and you need to swap out the jars).

If you live close to the school you'll be attending, you might be able to snag some formalin or whatever they use to preserve the teeth. A 1:10 dilution of bleach will also work perfectly fine until you get to school. Someone mentioned autoclaving, but that did NOT work out well for the class above us -- the teeth dried out and fell apart when they tried to work on them.

 

[DrTacoElf]

Just go to office and drop off jar with contact info. Calling isn't worth the trouble. You want about 10-20 jars out for best results.

 

[toothie]

keep them in bleach , diluted in the ratio of 1: 5 for 2-3 days after whch put them in a solution containing 2 parts bleach, 3 parts glycerine and 5 parts water. excess bleahc makes the teeth brittle and they break once u start working on them.