About Tegan's Tooth Gems
This Didn't Start With a Trend. It Started With Nine Years of Understanding What Metal Does Inside the Body.
Tegan Love is the founder of Tegan’s Tooth Gems — established in 2018 — and before she ever placed a tooth gem, she spent nearly a decade as a licensed professional body piercer.
That background isn’t a footnote. It’s the foundation everything TTG is built on.
Tegan’s piercing career took her through studios ranging from high-volume street shops to working alongside the Vice President of the Association of Professional Piercers (APP) — the most respected credentialing and safety organization in the professional piercing industry worldwide. Along the way, she was recognized by the Sacramento News & Review as Sacramento’s Second Best Body Piercer — a testament to the skill, safety standards, and client trust she built over nearly a decade behind the needle.
The APP sets the material safety benchmarks that serious piercers worldwide are trained to uphold. Working at that level means understanding implant-grade biocompatibility, alloy documentation, and tissue response at a depth most people in the beauty industry never encounter.
Body piercing teaches you, quickly, that the wrong alloy in the wrong place causes reactions, rejection, and real harm. You learn the difference between implant-grade titanium and mystery metal. You learn that “surgical steel” is a marketing term, not a safety standard. You learn to read SDS sheets, demand certifications, and never trust a vague claim when a client’s health is on the line.
That’s the lens Tegan brought to tooth gems when she founded TTG in 2018. And underneath all of it is something simpler: a deep, fiery passion for decorating people safely — and for shiny things.
Manufacturer. Designer. Original.
TTG is not a reseller. We are an 18K gold tooth gem manufacturer founded in 2018 — which means Tegan doesn’t just source designs, she creates them.
Every original TTG design starts the way all great things do: with an idea, a sketchbook, and days — sometimes weeks — of drawing, refining, and reimagining until something exists that didn’t exist before. Concepts dreamed up from scratch. Designs that had never been produced in the tooth gem category prior to TTG bringing them to life.
That creative freedom is ours entirely. The ideas, the concepts, the aesthetic direction — all original. All TTG.
Which means when you stock TTG designs, your clients are wearing something they genuinely cannot find anywhere else.
Why Material Transparency Is Non-Negotiable Here
When you’ve spent nine years watching what happens when the wrong metal meets human tissue — and trained alongside the people who write the industry’s safety standards — you don’t cut corners on alloy composition. Ever.
Every batch of 18K gold TTG carries is:
- Nickel-free and palladium-based — documented, not implied
- Third-party tested with published batch results
- Accompanied by SDS/MDS sheets and alloy composition certificates
- Produced to TTG’s Gold Standard — a 12-chapter material safety framework built specifically for oral jewelry
When a client asks “Is this real gold? Is it safe?” — TTG techs don’t guess. They show the receipts.
Professional Training Built on the Same Standard
TTG also trains the next generation of tooth gem technicians — and the curriculum reflects the same material science foundation Tegan built her career on. Students don’t just learn technique. They learn why the materials matter, how to answer client questions with confidence, and how to build a practice that holds up to scrutiny.
Training completion does not guarantee income or business success. Students are responsible for verifying local licensing requirements, obtaining appropriate insurance, and completing any required bloodborne pathogen (BBP) certifications before offering services professionally.
The Mission
To be the most trusted name in professional tooth gem supplies — not because we say so, but because we can prove it. Batch by batch. Design by design. Tech by tech. Since 2018.
Get in Touch
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Tegan Love — Licensed Body Piercer | Sacramento’s 2nd Best (Sacramento News & Review) | APP-Affiliated | Founder & Designer, Tegan’s Tooth Gems | Est. 2018