I just found out I am required to collect around 150 teeth before Sep. How do I go about asking dentists and Oral Surgeons to collect them for me. Are most dentists pretty cool about being approached about this?
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Collecting teeth?
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Call them up, schedule a 10 minute appointment with them, say "Hey I brought you a jar full of 1:10 bleach/water can you throw your exo's into it for me?"DentistDevilDog said:
Shoot, if you're really nice you could buy him/her lunch...
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Most dental schools require you to collect extracted human teeth for doing endo procedures and restorationsMacko8144 said:
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You're obviously new to this whole process aren't you.
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I just waltzed right into offices, usually the secretaries can handle it and just ask if they actually do a number of extractions before hand so later on you don't come up empty handed. Some are picky and will ask you to buy listerine to store the teeth in. Then you question them by asking "well doesn't listerine discolor the teeth?"...where they snap back at you with some weird answer and you buy the listerine anyways...only hoping to bleach the teeth back to their natural color. Good luck!
