As if going to the dentist wasn’t scary enough already, you can now augment your odontophobia with a series of nightmare-inducing dental training devices, antique drills and tooth-related objects. Artificial mouths with frighteningly flappy lips and gums, robotic dental mannequins that blink and choke, and dentures you can wear around your wrist are among the horrors found here.

The Scariest Calendar in the History of the World

If you enjoy having nightmares, hang this calendar in a prominent place where you’ll see it right before you go to bed. Made by Practicon, which produces the dental mannequins whose faces are Photoshopped over those of actual human models, the calendar was originally intended only for dental offices and purchasers of their products. But it went viral in late 2012, causing Practicon to release it to the general public.

Frighteningly Lifelike Robotic Dental Patient

Robotic dental patient Showa Hanako 2 has been described as ‘remarkably lifelike,’ which is true if you’re used to looking at people with dead eyes and terrifyingly elastic mouths. She can blink, sneeze, cough and even choke, mimicking many of the natural movements dentists and dental hygienists will have to get used to in real live patients. Showa Hanako 1 was only a little bit less frightening.

Antique Dental Model

This thing looks more like some kind of medieval torture device than a dental learning aid. Antique dental models like this one can be found in shops and on eBay, and they’re all totally unique thanks to the work that’s been done on their teeth, like excisions and gold fillings.

Vintage Dental School Teaching Device

Let’s say you find this yellowed dental school teaching device in an antique store, and figure it would be a cool thing to display on your shelf. Just don’t be surprised when it starts mysteriously moving itself around your home at night, and then appears on the pillow next to you one morning, its teeth chattering like those of that one zombie in the only truly creepy scene of World War Z.

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Dental Nightmare 17 Truly Terrifying Tooth Related Objects

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Mannequins are one of those things that are somewhat necessary even though they are undeniably scary. And as if they weren’t creepy enough on their own, now you have to deal with moving mannequins – or cyberquins as they’re called – that can run, walk, cycle, and generally motion like human beings. Be warned, the following set is not for the faint of heart.

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The creepiest of all creepy mannequins are of course the ones that look like children. Why else would there be dozens of horror flicks with deranged ventriloquist’s dummies, deranged dolls, and maniacal mannequins? We can in part thank Don Mancini and his cult-favorite Child’s Play series for making us perpetually look over our shoulders for children of the devil.

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Though many have tried to explain our irrational and inexplicable fear of mannequins, there is no concrete explanation thus far. Some, like the psychologist Ernst Jentsch, attribute this pediophobia to the uncertainty we feel about an object being animate or inanimate when the object resembles a living thing so closely that it can cause confusion about its nature.

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Others, like roboticist Masahiro Mori, believe in the uncanny valley hypothesis that argues, as robots become increasingly human-like, we have an increasingly positive reaction to them, however, after a while we reach a point where this increasingly positive response starts to become one of repulsion. What happens is that if something looks human but is ‘obviously’ non-human, the resemblance is endearing, however, when the non-humanness becomes not so obvious (as in the case of these mannequins) we begin to feel disturbed, repulsed, and in some cases worried and fearful.

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In popular culture, it’s not merely the mannequin that is scary but audio and visual cues are used to present overtones of violent insanity and create a strong feeling of insecurity that magnifies both our pediophobia as well as the uncanny valley effect.

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Though most instances in which mannequins are used prey on our fears, thanks to DC Comics, there may still be hope. DC’s Brother Power the Greek is a mannequin that comes to life and uses his super powers for good (and incidentally has a group of hippie friends to help him out).