Tooth Or Consequences: 15 Dodgy Dental Labs

So you’re strolling along the highways and byways of Limerick, Ireland and your dentures blow a gasket – or whatever it is that dentures do when they, er, discombobulate. Who ya gonna call? S Benson, of course, and his handy-dandy Dental Repair Service! Flickr member Eoin (eoino) snapped the shop in February of 2007, presumably while waiting for his chattering choppers to be charged up. Well, what else was he going to do, nip over to the pub for a bite?

Pay no mind to the shop’s seeming state of DIS-repair, as captured by Flickr member Ky H (kyaeh) in August of 2007. It’s obvious the proprietor is putting every last pingin into his dental products – yeah, that’s the ticket!

Superiority Complex

If this is a “Superior Dental Laboratory”, just imagine an inferior one (or, just keep reading). Credit Flickr members Valerie Leavy (valeavy) and Abe Lincoln Jr. (abelincolnjr), respectively, with the photos above.

Both photos were taken in 2013 in Valencia – the English-language sign places the place in either the Philippines or the USA; the latter boasts Valencias in AZ, CA, NM, PA and SC. OMG!

Welcome To Cuzco, I Love You

We’re not saying this er, rustic Lab Dental in Cuzco, Peru runs a cutthroat business but hey – check out the wickedly curved roots on that tooth!

With that said, the Inca civilization was famed for its precisely fitted stone block walls so one might naturally assume their descendants’ dentures reflected some portion of that knowledge. A tip of the capybara to Flickr members Arnaud Rousselin (anahitox) and Pierre Mongaux (pierremongaux), who snapped the sketchy-looking operation in December of 2016 and September of 2014, respectively.

Root Root Root For The Home Team

The Barber of Seville’s got nothin’ on the Dental Lab of Seville. Located in the aforementioned Spanish city and captured by Flickr member josh whelan (joshwhelan) on June 8th of 2011, the above Laboratorio Dental sports a fearsomely huge, triple-rooted tooth on its corrugated metal garage door. Didn’t expect that, did you? Well, nobody expects the Spanish Dental Technician!

Tiny Dental Lab Nation

When it comes to dental laboratories, size doesn’t matter. Mind you, if there’s a tiny dental technician inside making tiny sets of dentures, well, that might be a problem. We’re not sure what the deal is with Skipton Dental Laboratory in North Yorkshire, UK, but we can tell you its address is 10a Cavendish Street. That’s more than 10 but not quite 11, sort of like the fictional LesterCorp, located on a Manhattan building’s 7½ floor in the film Being John Malkovich.