Grillz-Maker in New England

Immortalize Your Mouth with RGNAGTRZ‍ ‍

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Our Process

Each unique piece takes several weeks to fabricate. We begin by taking a dental-grade impression of your mouth and collaborating to finalize a design. From that impression, we cast a positive in dental stone. The wax formed over the stone cast then undergoes the lost-wax investment process. We outsource this labor to a small, family-run casting foundry in Johnston, RI. Finally, we meet for the final fitting—where meticulous, necessary adjustments bring a sense of magic as the piece fits perfectly into place.

Centering familial histories and cultural motifs imbues the grillz form with a profound cultural weight, allowing personal sentiments to be worn and held within the mouth. Fitting metal to the mouth is an ancient language; each piece we craft serves as a vessel of cultural inheritance and reclamation.

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Redefining What’s Precious

Power of presence.

Meeting in person allows us to connect on a foundational level, building the mutual trust and comfort needed to shape & finalize your custom piece together.

Hand carved always.

Relying entirely on the intuition of the artist’s hand and traditional dental techniques, we spend hours sculpting to embed your sentiment into an enduring piece.

Cast Local ly.

Preserving the integrity of traditional craftsmanship, we honor our commitment to casting in solid precious metals—investing directly back into a local foundry with nearly a century of expertise.

Meet Your Maker

Regina Gutierrez is a New York-native RISD Sculpture graduate and Filipino grillz-maker with a studio practice based in the heart of Olneyville, Rhode Island.

Through their practice, Immortalizing Your Mouth, Regina synthesizes personal histories and cultural motifs while honoring the deep lineage of grillz-making as a weighted form of Black American culture. Their work serves as a meditation on the smiles that line a lineage.

What began in 2021 as a fixation on physical form—performing intimacy by casting the mouths of loved ones and strangers—evolved into a profound cultural synthesis. This journey led to their research on pre-colonial volcanic golds and bodily adornment in the Philippines, while simultaneously conducting collaborative research at RISD on grillz as an enduring expression of Black identity, status, and pride.

Deeply informed by the fine-tuned lens of dentistry and hands-on experience shadowing an oral surgeon, Regina brings an intuitive precision to a deeply sacred, traditional art form. Blending pre-colonial reverence with clinical accuracy and the cultural weight of this form, they work directly with each client to immortalize their mouth and honor their story.

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Creative Director & Sculptor

Reg/ina Gutierrez

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