There are some bright sides to having your wisdom tooth pulled out… a few days off from work, unlimited ice cream… and also, apparently, jewelry. Because this is exactly what Lucie Majerus has done to her own extracted wisdom teeth: she turned them into jewelry, and will do the same to yours as well via Human Ivory.

Just in case you’re appalled by the idea of adorning your body with gnarly-looking pulled-out teeth, rest assured that each tooth is smoothed and polished down to a familiar pearl shape. Accentuated with the appropriate metals and hooks, they end up looking like appropriate accessories.

“Human Ivory acts metaphorically for having our own value in ourselves… a suggestion to cherish our own material instead of other species’ teeth and reconsider our conventional preciousness,” says Majerus. So if you’ve saved up any of your pulled teeth for whatever reason, you can actually turn them into bespoke jewelry. Do so here.

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