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I would talk to your dentist - they have all KINDS of synthetic stuff 
that could work.
Beryl

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> so we all know about the classic activity of shining up a penny using soda (or pop or whatever you call it where you live). Unfortunately, as a demonstration for how soda is not so good for your teeth, it kind of contradicts itself--to young children, it demonstrates that soda makes things shiny and clean! Even the explanation that the soda ate away part of the penny is not going to overcome the image.
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> So...what's a good substitute? Something that will look pitted and nasty? And is ideally white so it "looks like" a tooth? We tried to get some real human teeth, but it seems that's not really legal. (Who knew?!) 
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> thanks as always my science geeky cyberfriends,
> AD
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