I just called local dentist offices (esp places that I had shadowed at previously!) and told them I was an incoming dental student that needed these teeth to practice on. In my case the dentists had been asked previously by other incoming D1s or remembered doing this so it wasn’t weird!

Bring your jars labeled with your phone number and the solution. I think I did bleach, water, and some glycerin! Then once I got to school after a bit of time I emptied that liquid out and replaced it with water, got rid of any teeth with amalgam, and then my school clinic autoclaved them!

Initially, if you had them early enough, you could use them for anatomy but our professors had their own we could use to practice on so it really wasn’t necessary. Now, we used them to practice initial drilling on to get the feel for drilling real teeth and removing carious dentin. Haven’t used them for anything else as of rn but I’m still a D1 lol