Repair on spinosaur teeth?

[Per Christian]

I'm thinking of buying these Spinosaurid teeth. I can't quite tell if there's restorations on the teeth. Can someone here advise me whether they may have been restored or not? They have been glued im quite certain, 

[TyBoy]

Its a mixed bag.  Not all are spinosaurid teeth a couple. are croc.  I see a few that are repaired and composited.  Some are good.  I would avoid

[Guns]

some of it have some repair and gap fill and even composite& fake root

[LordTrilobite]

Only three teeth look a little suspect and might have been repaired/composited. The rest looks a little beat up but otherwise good. Top right and middle bottom (beige one) look to be croc. The rest looks like Spino. Decent bunch if cheap.

[Per Christian]

1 hour ago, TyBoy said:

Its a mixed bag.  Not all are spinosaurid teeth a couple. are croc.  I see a few that are repaired and composited.  Some are good.  I would avoid

Thanks! How many are croc you think? The 2 bendy ones? I'm grateful for the feedback. Do they look heavily restored?

[TyBoy]

These two look like croc

[Top Trilo]

1 hour ago, Per Christian said:

Thanks! How many are croc you think? The 2 bendy ones? I'm grateful for the feedback. Do they look heavily restored?

The composites are the ones with obvious color change line, so they basically took pieces from two different teeth and glued them together. This one appears to be the most obvious,

 

[LordTrilobite]

17 minutes ago, Top Trilo said:

The composites are the ones with obvious color change line, so they basically took pieces from two different teeth and glued them together. This one appears to be the most obvious,

No, that looks all original. If you look at the photo of the other side the root just nicely continues. There's a break where you can see a different colour. Sometimes the preservation just creates different colours. If that was a composite then it does not match 99% of the standard composites either. The big tooth on the right of it has obvious repair where it looks all lumpy and beige. That's generally what "repairs" look like on Kem Kem fossils.

[Top Trilo]

58 minutes ago, LordTrilobite said:

No, that looks all original. If you look at the photo of the other side the root just nicely continues. There's a break where you can see a different colour. Sometimes the preservation just creates different colours. If that was a composite then it does not match 99% of the standard composites either. The big tooth on the right of it has obvious repair where it looks all lumpy and beige. That's generally what "repairs" look like on Kem Kem fossils.

Thanks for the clarification

[Per Christian]

Thanks everyone, this was very enlightening for me. It's reassuring to be able to ask questions about these things in here

[-Andy-]

There needs to be better photos taken in different lighting. Otherwise from what I can tell for now, the two teeth that TyBoy circled I agree are croc. The rest of the teeth looks to be repaired but none are obvious composites

 

Of course with better photos my analysis may change