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These dentures are made of wood, using a plate to retain the dentures in position in the oral cavity. Wooden plate dentures developed as a means of restorative dentistry unique to Japan, and were fabricated in significant numbers from the mid-Edo period onwards. The oldest wooden plate dentures still in existence were used by Nakaoka Tei (-1538), a priestess at the Ganjoji temple in Wakayama, Japan. The complete upper denture was carved from the very hard wood of the Japanese box tree (Buxus microphylla). These predated the development of similar dentures in Europe by around 230 years. Japanese wooden dentures were introduced to Europe in "Nippon," a report by German doctor Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold of his discoveries in Japan between 1823 and 1829.

Complete upper and lower rubber denture using vulcanized rubber as the plate material. In general, vulcanized rubber was used in nearly all plate dentures until the resin materials now in use for dental plates came into widespread use after the Second World War. The rubber was sold as soft, uncured sulfur-rubber compound sheets, each 2 mm thick and about 6 cm square. Wax dentures were embedded in plaster in flasks, then the wax eliminated and the rubber packed into the resulting mold. The assembly was then cured under pressure to vulcanize the rubber, hardening it.

Izumi Shikusawa established a factory in Nagoya and marketed the first domestically-
manufactured porcelain teeth in 1897. Shikusawa, born in Yamanashi in 1869, became interested in the manufacture of porcelain teeth while training as a dental technician. There were already local experiments with porcelain teeth such as the Mino teeth from Dachi, Gifu prefecture, but they were still at a very primitive stage. Shikusawa set about analyzing and researching ingredients and compositions to resolve the problems with such teeth, and traveled throughout Japan in a search for an appropriate porcelain. Eventually he discovered “Akame Choseki,” a reddish feldspar produced in Seto, and used that as the principal raw material for his Shikusawa Porcelain Teeth. The term “Mino teeth" has come to refer to these Shikusawa Porcelain Teeth. By around 1910, the Shikusawa Porcelain Teeth factory had expanded to about 6,600 square meters and employed 200 workers, but was apparently still unable to keep up with demand. Towards the end of the decade, Suda and others who had learned the business from one of Shikusawa's apprentices, set up independently to continue the manufacture of Shikusawa Porcelain Teeth. Izumi Shikusawa died in about 1934.

Open Faced Porcelain Teeth- Artificial teeth mimicking teeth restored using an open faced crown. Reproducing the effect of a treatment for natural teeth resulted in an ability to manufacture artificial teeth that seemed more natural. The crowns were metal, using a nickel-chromium alloy. Ohaguro Teeth— At the Japanese Imperial court in the Nara period and even earlier, there was a tradition of adult women blackening their teeth. In Heian period Kyoto, this custom spread to the higher ranks of the samurai, and ohaguro teeth - black artificial teeth - were also produced. They were blackened using several layers of glaze. The custom of tooth blackening was abandoned early in the 20th Century, but the teeth continued to be produced for export to Southeast Asia into the post-war period.