Dental Office Art — Vintage Teeth, Jaw & Skull Prints
The plates a dentist, orthodontist or hygienist hangs: the permanent teeth and the milk teeth from Sobotta's 1920 atlas, the skull with the teeth in place, the upper and lower jaw, two plates of children's skulls with the developing teeth, the skull from the front, the side, below and inside from Sobotta's 1919 volume, Eustachi's skull in seventeen views (1714) and Albinus's study plates of the muscles of the jaw (1747). Composed as wall art for the surgery and the waiting room.
10 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
For the surgery and the waiting room
The permanent-teeth plate, the full upper and lower dentition drawn tooth by tooth, is the one most practices hang in the surgery; the milk-teeth-and-permanent-teeth plate and the child's skull with the developing teeth belong in a paediatric or family practice, where they explain the thing parents ask about most. For the waiting room, a skull reads as art first: Sobotta's front and side views in soft colour, or Eustachi's seventeen views of the skull on one engraved sheet, a reference sheet for three centuries.
The atlases behind them
The colour plates are chromolithographs from Johannes Sobotta's Atlas der deskriptiven Anatomie des Menschen, the teeth and jaws from the second volume of 1920 and the skulls from the first of 1919. Eustachi's skull comes from the Tabulae anatomicae, engraved in the sixteenth century and published in Rome in 1714. Albinus's study plates of the muscles of the face, ear and jaw and of the larynx, jaw and pharynx are from the Tabulae sceleti et musculorum of 1747. Each specimen edition carries its atlas, plate and date typeset beneath the image.
Sizes, framing and sets
Sobotta and Albinus plates print up to 24×36; the Eustachi skull up to 16×24. Each comes full-bleed or as a captioned specimen on a cream ground, on 250 gsm off-white archival paper, unframed or framed in black or dark wood with a plexiglass front and no mat; black suits the engraving, dark wood warms the colour plates. The permanent teeth, the milk teeth and the skull with the teeth at 16×24 make the standard surgery trio, and three or more prints take 10% off automatically. Standard shipping is free.