Dental Acrylic and Fang Making

[Darth Mule]

Anyone have any recommendations? Wanting to do fangs on the fly like they do at cons. Right on the tooth. I'm sure I have the technical skillset, but I need more information on types of dental grade acrylic to use.

I know It must be very fast setting. There are at least two guys I've seen that make them this way and theirs both seems to set in a matter of seconds. And ya know, it might behoove everyone involved if it were non-toxic.

 

[Hermes]

Master Chris, do you know how to make a negative mold with Alginate? If so, the rest is rather straightforward. You make the Negative, then make the positive in a very strong plaster (I wouldn´t presume to know the brand names in the US), then you make the shape of the teeth in Play-Doh or something to that effect, then you will make another negative mold, again with Alginate, and then you´ll have everything set to make your Acrylic Teeth.

As for the Acrylic part itself, the Dental Acrylic sets rather quickly, so you won´t have a problem with the time itself, only with the color, which I´d suggest you to pick a medium color. Not too white, or else it´ll look weird, and not too dim, or else the vampire will look like he´s a chain-smoker.

If you have any other question, shoot and I´ll try to respond as quickly as possible!

And may the Force be with you!

Hermes!

 

[Darth Mule]

Thanks for the info. I'm really looking for the acrylic itself. Brands to use, etc. I think I have the technical part fine. I just need the materials.

 

[Hermes]

I´m sorry I can´t help you too much on the materials themselves, being that I´m not from the US, so it would be rather hard to know the exact name of the best materials, sorry..

 

[8 perf]

Go to your local family dentist and ask him for some suppliers. He will also have a color chart to match the different powders to your own tooth color so you can get the right shade. Thats what I did.
I bought a kit like you mentiond at Dragon*Con last year. The powder was a bright white. My local dentist hooked me up and I had me a nice set of fangs by Halloween.

 

[SgtFang]

On the fly huh? What you need is a small pouch of ivory colored "Friendly Plastic" pellets, some vegetable oil, a small pan, and a hotplate.

Obtain the friendly plastic (small pellets of plastic that become formable in hot water) from whatever source, craft store, internet supplier etc.

Heat a small amount up in hot water on the hotplate till it becomes formable

Take a small pinch of the hot plastic, jam it up against your canine and form to shape. You may have to re-dip and refit it in the hot water several times to finalize the shape. On the last re-dip, wet your fingers with the vegetable oil to get a smooth glossy finish on your finished fang.

Repeat for the other side. 30 - 45 minutes tops!

http://www.amaco.com/prodcat-friendly-plastic-85.html

Have fun!

-Sarge

 

[rollerboi]

On the other hand, I've had real enamel fangs before. Those things could bite through pop cans and rip them in half. No plastic pellet fangs are gonna be able to do this!

He had pre-shaped fangs, and mixed up the alginate to fit in the bottom cavity over my teeth, they set up pretty quickly and were the strongest fangs I've ever seen.

Unfortunately, I don't know the details on the stuff.

 

[Goldenrod]

Here ya go;-)

http://www.fxwarehouse.info/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SFK&Category_Code=Fangs

 

[8 perf]

Here ya go;-)

http://www.fxwarehouse.info/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SFK&Category_Code=Fangs

I don't think this is the supplier that was at DragonCon last year, but the contents of the box are identicle to what I purchased. Top notch kit, and easy to follow directions. I have made at leasat 4 sets so far and still have material left over.

 

[Brien]

A few years ago I would make some extra cash making fangs for the goths at my old college. I had an acrylic that could be mixed and placed directly in the mouth. I would get a rough fang shape, push it on the tooth and let it start to set. Once it was rubbery I would pull it and let it harden, and dremel it into shape. No molds or anything. They looked great but the acrylic was very suseptible to UV and would darken over time unless you stored them out of light. The sad thing is I do not remember the acrylic type. I have been looking for the stuff for about 8 years.

The guy who sold it to me said it was usable directly in the mouth, used mainly for quick caps and such, kind of a stop gap measure. Like someone said, talk to a dentist. Check the phonebook and see if there is a dental supplier in your area, stop in and talk to them. That is how I found the stuff I used.

 

[DarthCarcinus]

This is a pair I made in about an hour for a friend of mine.

And a pair of gritty teeth I made for my palpatine costume

He just needed a pair quick so I mixed up some standard stuff and added a little less cold cure monomer untill it turned doughy and then formed them. Once they were more rubber like, we removed them and poured the monomer over them... and viola... they were done.