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Teeth coated with Teflon will make eating easier, as they just slide through whatever you bite, with ease.
Since nothing sticks to them, the need to brush your teeth will diminish... at least until the Teflon develops a few scratches.
Don't bite your tongue.
NEW Teflon coated teeth.
http://www.leclerclooms.com/asstap.htm
Bottom of page. [Amos Kito, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Toothpaste and Trucks
http://www.thedose....yletters/toms1.html
[Amos Kito, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Bite through Space Cable Yo-Yo's
http://www.erreursd...photos/moonrreq.jpg
[thumbwax, Oct 05 2004]
None for me, thanks.
http://www.ourstole...411-RH-dupontc8.htm
[dbsousa, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Ceramic/teflon cookware
http://164.195.100....332&RS=PN/6,216,332
[ldischler, Oct 05 2004]
[link]
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"Say, that's a slick set of choppers you got there!"
"You don't know the half of it!" |
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First you'd have to have your teeth cleaned to get rid of any plauge or crud (and that can be quite painful.) Croissant for a great new use for Teflon. I’ve only ever thought of it being used on clothing and non-stick pans. |
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Not only does it make your eating experience more efficient, it adds a fashionable new look to your teeth. |
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Shinny, shinny, shinny, shinny, shinny, shinny. Gau's treasure. (Final Fantasy 6: Gau, concernig a diver's helmet) |
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Be sure and eat with plastic utensils. |
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<obligatory>But how will you get it to stick to your teeth?</obligatory> |
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Holding on to a cigar or pipe should be a chore. + |
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And in what way is that a change, [bliss]? |
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Blimey [waugles] (sniggers) - the anno was obligatory. An answer was optional! |
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It could reduce the number of people pulling trucks with their teeth [link], fortunately. |
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continuing from what waugs was saying, they don't tell you that the actual application process in done at very high temperatures, so i you can handle the grit-blasting _and_ the high temperatures, you can have nice slippery teeth. |
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//high temperatures//
In that case, I could do a little non-stick cooking, like stir-fry. In every bite -- and no dishes! |
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I like...but what about when it did get scratched? Would you need to have to it removed and reapplied? Would that hurt? I'm scared of the dentist. |
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Lets just pull out all the original teeth, and implant the new teflon ones. |
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This uses your original teeth, Chaos_X. |
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I imagine, what with the efficiency of teflon-coated bullets, that these should prove very useful if you ever have to chew through a police issue bulletproof vest. |
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Or a Space Cable Yo-Yo (link) |
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While teflon coated teeth would certainly make oral hygiene simpler, they would do very little to decrease the effort of biting and chewing. The teflon would only decrease the friction as food slides across the teeth, but compression forces necessary to mechanically break down the food would be unchanged. In fact, hard foods would be more difficult to bite and chew, as the teeth wouldn't be able to grip them as well. You might well bite your tongue off when trying to chomp a jawbreaker. |
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I don't know if gripping food would be a problem, really. The chewing surfaces of teeth are ridged, not flat and smooth, and these larger features are the parts that grip -- a file or cheese grater would still work perfectly well if coated with teflon. |
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Enamel is already pretty non-stick, though. If Teflon were more resistant to acid damage from plaque, that would be a plus, though it wouldn't do anything for soft tissue -- you'd still need to brush to keep your gums clean. |
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You'd want to demonstrate that it's better than the sealant they already use to coat teeth, and also that it's cool to have gray teeth. |
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Instead of developing teflon that can survive sixty years of heavy use, you could strip it off and re-apply every now and then. |
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You can get white Teflon. |
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Actually, coffee, tea, and tobacco stains would be far less difficult to remove, too. |
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I've heard that teflon is realy not too good to ingest,
that's the other reason you don't use metal utinsals. It's
definatly not for teeth-grinders |
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[demtangs] Nope, Teflon is inert, and is used in implants. There's no problem with ingestion. The reason you didn't want to use metal utensils with Teflon in the old days was that it was soft. Nowadays, non-stick pans are coated with a ceramic/Teflon combination. Very hard wearing by comparison. Something like that might be done with teeth, but I doubt that you could get it in dental white. [+]
[dbsousa] That link refers to problems with a precursor chemical not present in Teflon itself. So, no worries. |
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Article in today's USAToday (aka "McPaper") about the emerging information on the toxicity of Teflon and particularly of a couple of key chemicals used in its makeup. |
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The dangers were said to be especially high for women in their childbearing years. |
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Last week the EPA ordered companies producing Teflon to investigate the potential health risks. |
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Interestingly, a sidebar in the article told of new understandings about how very tiny amounts of certain chemicals are thought to be more dangerous than large amounts due to the way the chemicals interact with receptors. Large amounts flood the receptors, preventing absorption wheras very small amounts are continuously absorbed. |
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Also interesting, apparently incredibly small amounts of the gases produced when Teflon is overheated on a stove top are nearly instantly fatal to pet birds. A time was cited of about five minutes from exposure to death due, at least in part, to a cessation of liver functionality. |
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Might be very popular with Beauty Contest contestants - they wouldn't have to smear nasty tasting Vaseline on their teeth, and all they eat is salad anyway. |
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Geez, bris, like a canary in a kitchen? |
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They seemed to focus on the parakeet. |
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Whoa...we have a parakeet about six feet away from the stove... |
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you HAD a parakeet about 6 feet away from the stove... |
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