Closing an open mouth?

[system]

I’m fiddling with a model of the Great Goblin from “The Hobbit” movie. Now, I’m not sure I want the mouth open as I go along, but I can’t really figure out the best way to close it this late in the creation process without truncating polys into a complete mess. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to delete mesh details, like teeth once you made the misstake of merging them into the head mesh…

If I should be able to move/push the mouth together, what is the best way to get rid of all the polys (teeth etc) that would end up behind the lips?

Any ideas?

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[Doug_Jones]

Group split? Polygroup from polypaint then group split. Select and hide, then delete hidden. How did you model/merge?
In the brush modifiers there is mask by polygroup, set to highest value and you can tweak the lips. HTH

[system]

Thank you. Sounds like a plan! I will try that…

I made the model by resculpting one of the male models that came with Zb. The teeth was made separately, but during the process I merged them with the head mesh via DynaMesh. That was a bad call…