Meet Wilbur.
He's a pig. . . well . . . was a pig.
This picture is from before my blog's inception, but sometimes I go back and find gems.
Wilbur was part of Morgan's science expo project a couple of years ago. Her friend purchased him at a local farmer's market. By the time we got to work on the science project, the pig had sat in her fridge for a whole week--long enough to earn a name. Morgan's goal was to put teeth in various solutions, such as coffee, tea, and soda, and then watch what happened to the teeth.
No problem, right? Nope. It turns out that the teeth of a slaughtered, refrigerated pig are not that easy to remove. In fact, it may well be that teeth of a live pig are just as hard to remove--I don't know. I haven't tried it lately. . . . but these teeth were terrible. We tried to use pliers, and the teeth would just crumble like a piece of wet chalk. After digging around the gums like a dentist does, I did manage to extract couple of intact teeth.
After that we tried to dissect the eye, but it was surprisingly even harder to remove.
The end conclusion of the project: coffee, tea, and soda all stain teeth. . . . big surprise.
Thank you, Wilbur, for donating your head to third grade science.
2 comments:
Oh my goodness, you sure do have a lot of wildlife on your blog. And not the cute fuzzy kind either. What a good mother to extract dead pig teeth for your daughter but why the heck didn't Matt do it? He's the dental student right?
Alana,
The whole thing wasn't really Matthew's idea, but he kind of got excited about trying to remove those teeth. However, he quickly became frustrated with the rudimentary tools (ya know--dentists are so spoiled ;) ), so I took over.
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