Grill (jewelry)
Manufacture
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== Manufacture == |
== Manufacture == |
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[[Image:Toothmold.jpg|thumb|More expensive grills are shaped to fit custom dental castings like this one.]] |
[[Image:Toothmold.jpg|thumb|More expensive grills are shaped to fit custom dental castings like this one.]] |
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While early grills could not be removed easily and involved reshaping the tooth itself to fit the grill, grills |
While early grills could not be removed easily and involved reshaping the tooth itself to fit the grill, grills today are made from custom [[Impression (dental)|dental molds]]. For more expensive grills, a dentist takes a mold of the wearer's front teeth with a quick set molding compound, such as silicone rubber or dental [[alginate]]. A tooth casting is obtained by filling the alginate or silicone rubber negative mold with a gypsum cement such as Buffstone, which is removed from the mold when set and used as a positive form on which to build a wax model that conforms exactly to the original set of teeth. The resulting wax model is cast in gold using the lost-wax process, then it's finished by hand, and precious stones, if any, are set into the metal. Some manufacturers take shortcuts from this difficult and expensive process, offering generic grills backed with a molding compound to make them fit the teeth, or use base metals like brass and nickel. Such grills may be less comfortable or dependable than grills that are professionally fitted.[http://deezgrillz.com/ "Various grill types and styles"] Deezgrillz.com (November 10, 2016) In several instances jewelers manufacturing grills from impressions they've made from their client's teeth have been charged with a felony: [[practicing dentistry without a license]]..Rosenbaum, S.I. [https://reason.com/2018/10/09/fla-grills-dentisty-license-arrest-fine/https://reason.com/2018/10/09/fla-grills-dentisty-license-arrest-fine/] ''[[St._Petersburg_Times]]'' (December 17, 2005). |
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== Criticism and health hazards == |
== Criticism and health hazards == |
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