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Last April I had an unfortunate fall at work. My face hit the concrete floor
and I busted one of my front teeth, as you can see here:
Normally the dentist would put some kind of cap on what was left of the
tooth, so I could do things like eat, smile and pronounce the letters V and F.
As “luck” would have it, the part of the tooth that was still there had been
cracked so much in the fall that using it to put a cap on wasn’t going to be
possible. So they had to pull the whole thing out, root and all:
Woe is me!
The dentist made me something called a “flipper” that is a
piece that fits against the roof of my mouth and has a fake tooth on it that
fits exactly where the real one used to be. I can’t eat with it; it’s just
there to keep me from looking like a moron until I get the permanent tooth
implant in.
One day while looking at the gap where my tooth had been, I
noticed that the size of the gap appeared to be about the same width as a LEGO
stud. “Hmmm,” I thought to myself. “I wonder if I could fashion some sort of
fake tooth out of LEGOS?”
I took a white 1X1 tile and put it up in the empty slot. BINGO! It was a
perfect fit. The 1X1 tile fit between the 2 existing real teeth with no extra
space so that friction held it in place. Yet isn’t wasn’t so tight that it hurt
or needed to be wedged in with a lot of force.
Next I took the idea one step further. I thought, “Why use a 1X1 tile, when
there’s a 1X1 LEGO piece with a tooth already on it?”
Now I can roar with the best of them.
Whole gallery
David “Sabertooth” Gregory
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