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My first reaction: “EWW..Gross.”

Somewhere in Australia, these are being sold as accessories.

I mean…Why?!

It reminds me of the teeth I had to extract before I put on my braces, which the dentist eventually gave to me, and that I (sterilised and) kept in a ziploc baggy.

Everytime I whipped them out for a little show-and-tell – hey, I was only 17 okay, – the response would always be, “Why, Granny, what big teeth you have!”…or something along those lines. Whatever it was, it was always disgust and bemusement, never “YOU KNOW WHAT? This would make a great fashion accessory!”

But apparently, Ms Polly Van der Glas thinks it is.

(more after the jump!)

She sources her hair and teeth from India and China, and they are all 100% pre-owned by an actual human being – it is not known whether the former owners of these little bits of themselves are still alive.

And somehow that matters to me: I mean, what if some vengeful ghost is on my tail just because I fancied his/her bicuspid as a pretty pendant, and because of that he/she can’t chew properly in his/her afterlife?

I would never forgive myself.

By the way, Ms Van der Glas would be grateful if you could send along your teeth as a donation, because according to the site, those are ‘hard to come by’. This is your chance to have a bit of you live on forever, even if it’s only as someone else’s accessory!