THE BONE GUYS APRIL 2023 NEWSLETTER
BONE GUYS RUSH IN
The Bone Guys are full of tricks. Fortunately, for everyone involved, April Fool’s Day fell on a weekend, saving you from certain embarrassment at the hands of an email newsletter.
All the better to greet April with the latest and greatest from the dental world, including eye-opening news headlines and humor about teeth, gums, as well as and all the latest updates from our friends and partners.
The Bone Guys are a family-run business operated out of California and Michigan that provides the best dental products in the industry, as well as dedicated dental training and non-profit events. And we love to have fun!
That’s why we invite you each month to this space, where we’d absolutely LOVE for you to join our community and share your passions with us, as well, by contributing your own fun dental stories, favorite photos, cartoons, or anything else you’d like to share with the world.
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THE MOLAR EXPRESS
—A group of paleontologists are working on theories that dinosaurs like the T. Rex, once thought to have protruding, exposed teeth, actually may have had scaly lips, like some lizards, covering their sizable choppers.
—Nicolas Cage is blaming the false fangs he wore to play Dracula in the upcoming comedy Renfield as the reason he may have seemed anti-social on set.
—James Craig, the Aurora, Colorado, dentist accused of poisoning and killing his wife in March, was reportedly $2 million in debt due to failed crypto currency investments and a failed practice. His wife had three insurance policies out, while Craig is accused of sneaking deadly potassium cyanide into her smoothies.
—One in ten Britons does their own dental surgery, such as pulling and filling teeth.
—”I found myself on the drive home wishing people were as afraid of going to hell as they are of going to the dentist…” An employee of a pediatric dentist shares her views on fear and damnation with her fellow Kentuckians.
—Salt and mustard oil are two historically used ingredients that may actually help the health of your teeth and gums. Hmmm… ?
The Strange Things AI Is Doing With Our Teeth
It seems everybody, with bated breath, is talking about AI and its implications for our near future these days. This includes our own industry, in which so many dental surgeons we know wonder how artificial technology could improve, evolve, or even endanger the profession we know today through such technology as dental photography and image analysis.
But at least one thing appears to remain constant in our contemporary culture. Smiles, once synonymous with happiness and openly welcoming others into your confidence, are increasingly being used as a totem of creepiness.
You’ll see the phenomenon in new movies like Smile, which rocketed to fame with a viral marketing campaign that found paid actors smiling like psychos in public places like ballparks, as well as untold numbers of horror films like the ones we talked about last October featuring jagged black hole smiles from notorious movie villains.
Now these two modern forces seem to be merging, with several online AI artists making sinister art featuring strange modifications to human-like teeth.
These AI images veer from the adorable anthropomorphic teeth, fascinating teeth cross sections, and terrifying dental devices of ToothGenAI; the surreal subversions of famous paintings featuring razor-sharp canines of artist Andrew Perkins; the malevolent false teeth sets conjured by Intergalactic Museum of Dentures; and the just-plain-old plasticky weirdness of these works by Lemon Synthography of so many ecstatic individuals bearing recessed gums.
These images, crafted entirely using AI art generators and their creators’ imaginations, may not further the dental genre per se, but add a toothy new genre to the horror and humor-filled art world found in abundance online, spawning and populating hashtags like #aiteeth and #astrodenturism.
For those of us who remain fascinated, frightened, or greatly enthused about teeth, there’s a whole new universe of crazy dental imagery to soak in or shun, as we see fit in the brave new world of 2023.
These AI images veer from the adorable anthropomorphic teeth, fascinating teeth cross sections, and terrifying dental devices of ToothGenAI; the surreal subversions of famous paintings featuring razor-sharp canines of artist Andrew Perkins; the malevolent false teeth sets conjured by Intergalactic Museum of Dentures; and the just-plain-old plasticky weirdness of these works by Lemon Synthography of so many ecstatic individuals bearing recessed gums.
These images, crafted entirely using AI art generators and their creators’ imaginations, may not further the dental genre per se, but add a toothy new genre to the horror and humor-filled art world found in abundance online, spawning and populating hashtags like #aiteeth and #astrodenturism.
For those of us who remain fascinated, frightened, or greatly enthused about teeth, there’s a whole new universe of crazy dental imagery to soak in or shun, as we see fit in the brave new world of 2023.
HUMOR HAS IT....
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P.S.
Paying tribute to Lillian Lindsay, Britain’s first female dentist. Rejected by England’s National Dental Hospital for fear she’d be distracting to the men there, Lindsay went to Scotland and was admitted as the first female student at the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School. From there, everything was totally fine with everyone (not). Still, Lindsay went on to win awards and acclaim, later becoming a prolific author and president of both the British Dental Society and the Society for the Study of Orthodontics.
