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Exactly one week after selling at auction "The John Lennon Tooth" is excited to announce a proposed partnership with SmileTrain.org to help raise money for the treatment of cleft lip & palates for underprivileged children . On January 20, 2012 the purchaser of the JLT started work on an application for a Guinness Record® for the most expensive human tooth sold at auction. On March 13/12 we announced that a special line of jewellery has been designed in cooperation with LA designer Ari Soffer as a tribute called the John Lennon DNA pendant (To Order Click Here) as seen on national television.
The tooth of the matter is John Lennon was such a massive star in the world of music, that a dentist was willing to invest over $30,000 US to buy it. Within 36 hours literally hundreds of millions of people discovered the fate of a small rotten molar. A Kardashian quickie divorce, the Justin Bieber scandal and the Michael Jackson murder trial were surpassed by the John Lennon Tooth auction.
SONG: Love Me Tooth -written by Dr. Michael Zuk & performed by Curtis Phagoo- as played on Sirius radio with Jay Thomas
The BBC radio jumped on several interviews with the dazed dentist which followed the auction in the UK on November 5, 2011. A media blitz followed and the story spread worldwide. TV crews moved in and Dr. Michael Zuk's answering service was overcome by requests for interviews about the story about the odd purchase.
Bill O'Reilly complained, Anderson Cooper ridiculisted, and naturally Jay Leno joked about it in a monologue. A GOOGLE search of the words John Lennon Tooth blasted out pages of links to stories which often contained false information which was passed along by by the media.
A few days after making the commitment, the dentist decided he should use the tooth's fame to support a worthy charity and came up with the idea of sponsoring a "John Lennon Tooth" themed T-shirt fund raiser (using JL's own quotes, song lyric twisted dentally and smart ass comments that may appeal to others). Dr. Zuk has supported of SmileTrain.org for a number of years and the program offers surgical correction for cleft lip and palate disorders for young children in developing nations so he is working on a venture to turn an odd obsession about teeth and marketing into a non-profit that John Lennon would be proud of.
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PROPOSED Charity Initiatives- details to be finalized
*The profit from the first JL DNA pendant will be donated to Smile Train.org (see page 4 for further details)
Dental Office Art - professionally produced, limited edition pieces- refer to the 'Rot Star' Art tab on the website menu
T-Shirt Ideas & Slogans
- "Think you had a rotten day?" - John Lennon Tooth
- "Love, Love Me Tooth!" - JLT
- "Don't even think about a Cavity Search"- JLT
- "You can't handle the Tooth!"- JLT
- "No Tooth for YOU!" - JLT
- "They laughed when my dentist spent $30,000 on me." -JLT
- Your own ideas are appreciated!
UPDATE: The 'Tooth Collector' has struck again...this time Elvis Presley has provided a piece of dental Rock & Roll history. Visit www.ElvisTooth.com for further information.
