The Tooth Fairy's Stash

Yep, your eyes ain't lying, those are boxes full of teeth, all neatly sterilised and categorised. It's my collection of real teeth for next year's practicals.

So there i was, boiling teeth in a solution of conc. sodium hydroxide. It felt really weird standing there at the stove and stirring the pot of teeth, waiting for it to come to a rolling boil. Lucky my grandma and maid aren't squeamish people. But let me tell you, the stuff smells pretty bad, especially infused with that streak of dettol, which was used to soak the teeth in when i left the jars at clinics for collection. The teeth still smell now. But that's not the worst part! The worst part was when ms han told us that we weren't really sterilising the teeth, we were actually trying to dislodge any skin/blood/flesh off the teeth which normal boiling couldn't do. Horrifying!!! She told us to watch for bits floating up, urrghhh. Thankfully that didn't happen, the solution just became very yucky and mucky à la mike rowe.

Anyway, just very thankful that i have super nice seniors who passed down this collection of really nicely sorted and odourless teeth AND half a bottle of unsterilised teeth. I only had to boil the ones you see in the ziplock bag, which unfortunately are the ones that smell =( In fact, he passed me so many teeth that i don't think i actually needed to collect any, other than to make up for those that i use of course. So maybe if i don't use up too many, i won't have to collect more or even sort mine out and can just pass them down...