What DOES the tooth fairy do with all the teeth she collects, anyway?

Answer 1

grinds them up to make new teeth. Where do you think toddlers teeth come from? Fairy magic.

Answer 2

Origins
The Tooth Fairy calls upon the European folklore of House Elves or Brownies who will often perform useful tasks or exchange valuable treasures for things humans view as mundane or useless.

Cultural historians say that superstition has always surrounded teeth and these valuable tokens have been used to ward off witches and demons in the past. Vikings were even supposed to give kids a "tooth fee" for using children's teeth.

In a variety of primitive cultures, the shedding of the first baby tooth became a kind of ritual. This rite of passage has been documented numerous ways. Many of these ceremonies included verbal incantations and wishes, along with actions. Variations on this custom were most likely passed along through oral communication.

The most commonly accepted belief by academics is the fairy's development from the tooth mouse, depicted in an 18th century French language fairy tale. In "La Bonne Petite Souris," a mouse changes into a fairy to help a good Queen defeat an evil King by hiding under his pillow to torment him and knocking out all his teeth. Also, in Europe, baby teeth used to be fed to rodents and other animals in the hopes of getting sharper, more rodent-like, teeth in the future.[citation needed]

This combination of ancient international traditions has evolved into one that is distinct in the United States. Folklorist Tad Tuleja suggests three factors that have turned this folk belief into a national custom: postwar affluence, a child-directed family culture, and media encouragement.

Pioneering scholar Rosemary Wells, a former professor at the Northwestern University Dental School, found archival evidence that supports the origin of different tooth fairies in the United States around 1900, but the first written reference to one specific symbol in American literature did not appear until the 1949 book, "The Tooth Fairy" by Lee Rothgow. Considered the world's tooth fairy expert, Dr. Wells even created the Tooth Fairy Museum in 1993 in her hometown of Deerfield, Illinois. But according to the local library, it evaporated after her death when her husband liquidated all her memorabilia.

In some Asian countries, such as Japan and Korea, when a child loses a tooth the usual custom is that he or she should throw it onto the roof if it came from the lower jaw, or into the space beneath the floor if it came from the upper jaw. While doing this, the child shouts a request for the tooth to be replaced with the tooth of a mouse. This tradition is based on the fact that mice's teeth go on growing for their whole life. The similarity to Western traditions about mice and teeth is a coincidence.

Answer 3

Just tell your kids something cute and they will smile! Hey, I told the kids that the tooth fairy took them away so they would have room for the new grown-up teeth grow in! But as long as you keep it cute, they will appreciate it...

Answer 4

Well, of course, the tooth fairy builds the most wonderful creative playgrounds for all the children who need fun, out of those beautiful sparkly white toothy bricks. You can dream about this if you choose.

Answer 5

Good Question. in some culturtures the baby teeth were use as charms . there is wiapeeka dictionary giving some examples of this.
My mother keeps mine in a plastic container. might bury them with her or me.

Answer 6

She's been working on a fancy patio for her pool for the past millennium and it's made up of pearly baby teeth. LOL

Answer 7

I was told by a neighbor when I was a kid that she takes them to the dentist which is how he makes false teeth.

Answer 8

She takes them to the tooth recycling place and gets money for them. That's how she can afford to pay for them.

Answer 9

Strings them as jewelry like pearls and gives them away as door prizes at haunting parties

Answer 10

HE takes them, to make a new type of fuel for his intergalactic mazda miada RX-8