# My dentist won't make my upper plate to my specs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430 "2009-05-14T17:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/1 "2009-05-14T17:23:50Z")
I have to get all my remaining upper teeth removed, and get a partial. I had impressions taken of my upper and lower teeth, and yesterday I went in to pick out the tooth color I want in my upper plate. I had a nice chat with my dentist, and there were no sharp pointy objects waved in my face, and all was good. Except that I told him I wanted fangs in my upper plate, and he flatly refused. Honestly, it’s a reasonable request, don’t you think? I don’t want vampire fangs, I want cat fangs. My cats certainly seem to enjoy THEIR fangs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/2 "2009-05-14T17:25:53Z")
Report him to the Better Business Bureau. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/3 "2009-05-14T17:30:32Z")
[He likes his](http://english.vietnamnet.vn/dataimages/original/images363921_tiger-man.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/4 "2009-05-14T17:31:00Z")
Call in the Texas Rangers; they’ll straighten him out. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/5 "2009-05-14T17:32:58Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I want cat fangs. My cats certainly seem to enjoy THEIR fangs. 😃 Kitty fangs! I love seeing my cats yawn, because then I can see their fangs. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/6 "2009-05-14T17:42:40Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Report him to the Better Business Bureau. Really? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/7 "2009-05-14T17:46:10Z")
**Lynn** , You’re serious? Well then, they’d have to either be shorter than their neighboring teeth or so long they protrude a bit and rest on your bottom lip, right? Looking at **astro’s** link, it looks like he chose the latter? Any particular reason for the fangs, Hon? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/8 "2009-05-14T17:47:12Z")
Tell him you want to people to remember you when you smile … or … (all together now) … “Fangs for the memory!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/9 "2009-05-14T17:54:30Z")
You can specify the color? You obviously selected rainbow. Right? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/10 "2009-05-14T18:03:01Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > Really? I’m not sure if you’re joking or not, so I’ll just answer. No. Not really. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/11 "2009-05-14T18:06:26Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > Really? Hey, she _is_ a mean old lady. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/12 "2009-05-14T18:10:44Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You can specify the color? > > You obviously selected rainbow. Right? Is there a color called “British”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/13 "2009-05-14T19:26:55Z")
**Lynn** , there’s nothing to stop you from going after the canines with a file once you’ve got the plate, is there? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/14 "2009-05-14T19:34:45Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I’m not sure if you’re joking or not, so I’ll just answer. No. Not really. I’m embarrassingly easy to whoosh, just so you know. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/15 "2009-05-14T19:44:42Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I have to get all my remaining upper teeth removed, and get a partial. I had impressions taken of my upper and lower teeth, and yesterday I went in to pick out the tooth color I want in my upper plate. I had a nice chat with my dentist, and there were no sharp pointy objects waved in my face, and all was good. Except that I told him I wanted fangs in my upper plate, and he flatly refused. Honestly, it’s a reasonable request, don’t you think? I don’t want vampire fangs, I want cat fangs. My cats certainly seem to enjoy THEIR fangs. 😃 Sheesh. Who’s paying this guy? Is he doing it for free? NO! _YOU’RE_ the customer. If he won’t make you fangs, tell him you’ll be forced to vote with your feet (or your teeth) and go to his colleague Vlad M. Paylor and get the job done right! 😉 (of course, I think your request is eminently reasonable, and FAR more interesting than my main oddball dental request, involving anesthesia via ball-peen hammer. My boring ol’ dentist refused that request too. Dentists just have NO imagination :mad:) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/16 "2009-05-14T19:50:19Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > I’m embarrassingly easy to whoosh, just so you know. ::makes note ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/17 "2009-05-14T20:27:10Z")
Heh…I have an ex-boyfriend who was wearing sleeve fangs (hollow white plastic fangs that he slipped over his real canines) and vampire contact lenses the night I met him. Those were the main reason I agreed to go out to breakfast with him and his friends after the bar closed (I was the doorman that night). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/18 "2009-05-14T20:37:39Z")
I sympathize. Hell, I wanted to talk to my dentist about diamond implants in my choppers, but he wouldn’t tell me thing one on how to do it. Of course I wasn’t in his office, I was pestering him on a message board and didn’t want to pay anything. Still! ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/19 "2009-05-14T21:13:41Z")
Honestly. Why would you become a dentist if _not_ to outfit people with fangs of all shapes and sizes? ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430/20 "2009-05-14T21:24:31Z")
That would be cool! I’m sure you could get an artist to make you some caps to glue over the normal canine teeth. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dentist-wont-make-my-upper-plate-to-my-specs/496430.md?page=2)