She gave you the cast because you'll need it to make a new one if you loose your mouthguard. Between the possible cost and the time at the dentist, stick 'em in a drawer somewhere and don't forget where they are.

Mine is in the back of the naughty drawer in the bedroom, for some reason. Mouthguards are SEXAAAHHY, yeah baby!

Aren't they. So unseemly. I hate wearing it even though there's no one around. I think Bruno Bettelheim posited that a woman never gets away from the consciousness of how she looks. A woman crying has the image in her head of how she looks when she's crying. Well, it's true of me anyway.

I had one of those once -- when we began reworking my mouth, which had so much wear from grinding that my teeth were falling apart. Literally. I have had 2/3 of my teeth crowned (and one bridge for one that it was "too late for" in the past six years, two a year (plus temporary crowns to save some teeth till I could afford the permanent crown). The dentist actually corrected my bite with the crowns -- I used to have perfect occlusion, which is bad, because my front teeth touched at their biting edges and wore down to near nothing. My dentist threw in the two front teeth as a wedding present, because they didn't NEED crowning but looked odd next to the rest of my teeth.

As I was born with an enamel deficiency and badly discolored front teeth, this was THE BEST wedding present I could have gotten!

Yes, much better than a fondue set. Nice dentist!

I do think my mouthguard is sexy, actually. It's like a pacifier, and I think over the years it's given me a nice pout to my lips. Also, David on Six Feet Under wore one, and that imbued it a certain cool factor. I have a girlfriend who has similar affection for hers. And it's hella sexier than no front teeth. Give it a chance, OS!

When I had a bunch of work done, I ended up with a cast. Daughter and her friends used it in their "horror" shows, which consisted of darkening the bedroom, playing spooky effects on her "my first sony" and then, while shining flashlights on the set of teeth, slowly pulling them under the bed with a string.

and then, while shining flashlights on the set of teeth, slowly pulling them under the bed with a string.

For some reason I find this sentence absolutely hilarious.

Make a jello mold out of them.

use them to manually pre-chew your food, you'll save your real teeth and jaws some work

Somehow I ended up with a very old cast of an ex-boyfriend's teeth. I moved those teeth from place to place for about a dozen years, partly in case he wanted them back, partly hoping I'd come up with an interesting use for them.

But eventually I moved to California and just pitched them.