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tattoos for your teeth
Mar. 3rd, 2022 11:00 amAt the dentist having my teeth scraped clean this morning, I was thinking about how staining material (like tea, which I drink a lot of) tends to linger in grooves, and I was wondering if the scraping doesn't just create such grooves... and then I got to thinking about making grooves deliberately. About etching designs. You could brush ink over them, and then wipe the ink away, like scrimshaw. I wondered if that's ever been done anywhere. A lazy-quick internet search didn't turn anything up.
And then I wondered if any culture ever carved the teeth of the living. The closest I could find was that the Vikings filed horizontal indentations into their teeth. (Many cultures have sharpened or flattened teeth, but I'm not so much thinking of sharpening as of bas-relief carvings.) Trying to carve teeth without modern technology would have been difficult and time consuming and probably painful, and I don't imagine you could get very detailed ... And it probably wouldn't be so great for the usefulness of the teeth, and then there's hygiene...
Yes, upon reflection, scrimshaw is the better option. Tattoos for your teeth.
And then I wondered if any culture ever carved the teeth of the living. The closest I could find was that the Vikings filed horizontal indentations into their teeth. (Many cultures have sharpened or flattened teeth, but I'm not so much thinking of sharpening as of bas-relief carvings.) Trying to carve teeth without modern technology would have been difficult and time consuming and probably painful, and I don't imagine you could get very detailed ... And it probably wouldn't be so great for the usefulness of the teeth, and then there's hygiene...
Yes, upon reflection, scrimshaw is the better option. Tattoos for your teeth.
