Withdraw from ideas dear to medicine and science; there are two ways to think about teeth. The first, which necessitates an act of abstraction or requires a special context, is to think of teeth as singular entities, separated from the mouth’s encompassing totality; i.e. alone, as tooth. This initial image belongs to the dental clinic, invoking the extracted molar in a steel tray or the enamel tooth-like logo on its door. It also belongs to the tooth fairy – an encompassing figure whose mythology remains uncertain and varies across cultures, yet persists nonetheless in the collective imaginary – drawing attention…