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Unusual painting of teeth

Rob Beschizza at 8:09 am Sat, Feb 19, 2011

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nmf1.jpg My new dentist has this on the office wall by the chair, to set patients' minds at ease.

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  • sbarnes2

    Such great comments. This painting is Regretsylicious.

  • IWood

    “A ring! Fantastic! Do I have fingers? Do I have arms? You’re useless, Roger! Useless!”

    She was a nagging harpy of a tooth.

  • BB

    This only heightens my insane fear of dentists and dentistry.

  • Krüzεr ΦΘΩδ∞

    creepiest. thing. ever.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, do Teeth have teeth!?

    • Anonymous

      Maybe some do, but I don’t think these teethpeople do… But if some teeth have teeth, then WHERE DOES IT END?!?! :O

  • AirPillo

    That image is going to be floating around doing weird things to my subconscious for a while.

  • ernesto

    And the wallpaper!

  • jimkirk

    And the lips sofa…

    • holtt

      It’s by that artist, Man Tooth

  • braininavat

    > to set patients’ minds at ease.
    I find that if I floss regularly my teeth don’t get painful so I don’t have to find a new dentist to destroy them further.

  • catdance

    Does that remind anyone else of the album art on the Derek & the Dominos Layla album?

    • ill lich

      Actually it reminds me of a little ditty from my weird childhood:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZJs0gnOFgU

    • irksome

      I was thinking Van Dyke Parks’ covers for Little Feat.

      Creepy, yet disturbing.

  • Anonymous

    that box of chocolate is ironic haha

    • Anonymous

      Notice the chocolates are sugar free.

  • goldmineguttd

    Until I noticed the ring, I had a rather disturbing interpretation of their positions and body language.

    • ernesto

      So did I.
      Did anyone else notice the lamps?

  • twiddlekins

    Oh yes, oral sex teeth.. Totally will calm me down when my mouth is being tooled.

  • mccrum

    Haha! Rob, you said “new” dentist, like you were going to go back.

    What? Oh. Well, he must be a hell of a good dentist if you’re willing to look at that thing across the room while reading a magazine seven months old.

  • holtt

    And uh where is that ring supposed to go?

  • Anonymous

    Looks more like a Little Feat album cover. Neon Park Lives!

  • tweaked

    They’re drinking mouthwash!

    • Kaden

      Yeah, but ’43 was a good year.

  • Anonymous

    I made you a GIF:
    http://dump.fm/images/20110219/1298134446538-dumpfm-hypothete-teethskeletons.gif

    Moderator note: may induce seizures

  • arielturnip

    I think Grandma tooth watching from her portrait in the background is the creepiest part.

  • Anonymous

    How do they pick the glasses up? With their roots / legs?

  • Anonymous

    Tooth fellatio makes a lot more sense than one tooth proposing to another, ring or not.

  • benher

    Will they be raising a couple of canines together? Would the woman in the photo on the plaque approve?

  • JoeCrow

    I don’t know that I’d let somebody who put that up on their wall anywhere near my mouth.

    • Anonymous

      My immediate response, too. Bad painting is one thing but this is just plain creepy. I would not opt to be put under with this dentist.

  • siradambeck

    I just read the post about xkcd procrastination and immediately resolved to have more clarity and get more done. Yet here I am, commenting on a sexually suggestive tooth painting. Spread those roots baby…. lolwut

  • Elmo Gearloose

    Makes the phrase “root canal” more appealing…

  • nehpetsE

    Definitely a fetishistic image.
    Whats the word for people who are into tooth cosplay?

  • bob d

    And that, Johnny, is where baby teeth come from…

  • SpaceGhost

    He’s about to check her cavity

  • gravytop

    Look out lady — he’s an escaped dental patient

  • Rob Cruickshank

    He just came out as bicuspid.

  • Anonymous

    Will they be raising a couple of canines together? Would the woman in the photo on the plaque approve?

    Naw, turned out she’s bicuspid.