The base that fit the fake teeth into the jaw was made of lead. The top teeth were sourced from horses or donkeys, and the bottom were from cows and people.
After all that I'm not sure wood sounds that bad.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/519791/funky-history-george-washingtons-fake-teeth
Yikes! The phrase ‘get the lead out’ comes to mind.
I think I’d rather just gum it than trying to make all that hardware work.