Steampunk Miss Ruby Riches didn’t expect a dentist visit after attempting to mould her own vampire teeth.

Creating a set of vampire fangs turned into a sucky situation for a north Auckland woman who ended up with them welded in her mouth.

The Hibiscus Coast steam punk enthusiast, who goes by the name of Miss Ruby Riches, wanted to improve on her character's costume.

Ruby's persona is a purveyor of fine gems, who "occasionally dabbles in the underworld to source product for her clientele".

Abigail Dougherty Steam punk Miss Ruby Riches was trying to add a bit more of a darker side to her persona with the fangs.

Feeling her outfit didn't represent her in a dark enough way, Ruby wanted to add fangs to bring out her underworld side.

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Utilising her "Kiwi DIY spirit", she got hold of some thermoplastic and had a crack at making some herself.

Supplied Ruby was very pleased with the initial of her work results until she noticed she couldn't get it out of her mouth.

Aiming for a perfect fit, she moulded the plastic around her teeth and the roof of her mouth, shaped a fang, and poked in a gem to represent her persona's name and trade.

Ruby was extremely pleased with her handiwork - until she tried taking them out.

She found her ultimate goal of perfect fitting costume teeth that wouldn't fall out had been more than successful.

Supplied Dentist Leo Panzic works to drill away plastic from teeth.

The 59-year-old tried prising the mould off the top of her mouth with spoons, and when that didn't work tried a hot cup of tea.

"It burnt my mouth, but didn't soften it enough.

"At this stage I started to panic a little."

Supplied It took thirty minutes for the fangs to be removed.

She called her dentist, and while the receptionist couldn't understand the garbled words, an emergency appointment was made.

The 45 minutes in the waiting room gave her plenty of time to dwell on her DIY disaster.

"I was sitting there freaking out thinking - is this going to permanently disfigure me in some way?"

Abigail Dougherty Ruby has now been given some single fangs to stick to her teeth. A friend's effort to stop her having another go at making her own.

Ruby's usual dentist wasn't available, and she was taken under the wing of Dr Leo Panzic.

Panzic is also the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Croatia, the country home to what is believed to be the first person described in historical records as a vampire.

According to the Croatia Undiscovered website, Jure Grando died of sickness in 1656 and rose from the grave to terrorise the village of Kringa for 16 years, until he was decapitated. Another version of the story states Grando refused priests first rights to his bride on their wedding night, and was killed. However he was only unconscious and could be heard calling out from his grave. He was then proclaimed a vampire and beheaded.

Panzic said such legends abounded in this region of Europe. But none came to mind while he was dealing with a "distressed" Ruby.

"She got herself into a pickle, and I fixed it for her," he said.

Ruby was very grateful at Panzic and his staff's professionalism.

"They never laughed - never smiled," she said.

After a quick x-ray, Panzic took to the plastic with drills.

Thirty minutes and two wrecked drill bits later, the mould was off.

Ruby said the prising of the plastic from her mouth was "extremely painful".

Once off, she asked Panzic the best way to make fangs, and was firmly told not to try again.

Panzic said the incident was very unusual, but in the past he had dealt with people who had run into trouble after super gluing teeth back into their mouths.

According to ACC, $9,237,852 was paid for nearly 33,000 dental injuries in 2017. Among those 20 were for people who used some sort of adhesive.

"Mostly due to trying to open the tube with their mouths. Many of them suffered some form of bonding between their upper and lower teeth, or their teeth and lips or tongue," A spokesperson said.