What does everyone do with boar or warthog tusks to prevent splitting?

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I have seen people talk about filling with different waxes. Some people fill with silicone. Some seal the outside with lacquer. There are a lot of ideas out there. I am curious what people have tried and if you have older sets of tusks you have done things with that have stood the test of time.

I was talking with a taxidermist (not my taxidermist) that had said they had a client whose hippo teeth began splitting and they had repaired them and filled them with epoxy and a few years later they burst into pieces even after the repairs and filling with epoxy.

Wondering if anyone has discovered some magic preventative measure to keep these teeth from splitting.
 

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