Material girl

One of my favourite materials is wood. For me it is always a miracle that someone can carve something as beautiful as this from 'just' a piece of wood. Just look at the face! It really is incredible.



In November 2008, in Japan, wooden dentures from the 18th Century were found in a ditch.
Compared to similar teeth, the quality was extremely good. Haruhisa Yamaguchi, a dentist and former head of a museum of teeth in Nagoya, said wooden teeth only were for the upper class. “Only high-class samurai and rich merchants could afford artificial teeth. The owner might have dropped and lost (the wooden teeth), but didn’t throw them away” in the ditch because they would have been so expensive, Yamaguchi said.

In our clinic, wood is a material that is only used for some of the furniture.
Woody Woodpecker will defenitely leave your dentures (partial or full, temporary or permanent) at peace!