What's the tooth fairy paying for teeth these days?
 

The inch has lost his second tooth, the first one he swallowed so no visit from TTF.

Last night the tooth fairy left him a Fin. His mom thought that was extreme.

I remember 40 years or so ago getting .50 cents, so a fiver seemed about right to me.

What do the rest of you think about The Tooth Fairy?

Depends on the tooth. An average tooth is worth $5, a small toy, a book etc. A minor tooth may only be worth a couple of Sacagaweas. The two top front teeth are worth $20ea.

Tooth fairy is cheap around here. She only leaves a single coin for each tooth. Either a Half Dollar or a Dollar. She doesn't believe in paper money.

Round here it's a polished quarter. Two if there was particular pain/grief involved. The last tooth in Hebe's gob yielded a huge handful off pennies and nickles. I think our tooth fairy has a bit of an attitude thing going on.

Anybody see the tooth fairies in Hellboy?

Interesting. I like the sliding scale depending on importance and or pain.

The coin thing would have been my preferred route, except due to being on different pages in different books, some of the parents in the house thought it was ok to let the kids play with coins from a very early age, thus diminishing their specialness.

hint: it is the same parent who will loosely stuff up to $60 in change in her coat pocket with out a flap or button...

I opted for larger $ since I clearly remember my dad, in all sincerity handing me .50 and telling me to go to the movies, buy myself a popcorn and keep the change. I'm not even sure you could do that in 1935.

I think the tooth fairy here believes that it should be more of a token gesture.

Let's see, 32 teeth x 2 kids x $5 = I should have consulted you first... :(

Kids never forget the level of generosity of the tooth fairy - and it directly correlates to the quality of care at the old-people's home you get chucked into.
I'd rather throw some paper money around now than reek of piss and get smacked around by orderlies in my golden years.

lol good plan jinx! although it's too late for the tooth fairy to save me now.

The tooth fairy myth - shamefully teaching children that they should get a monetary reward for organ donation.

Rewarding them for letting their teeth fall out...

25 cents that used be kinda from Poland?

$5 for the first one, $1 for all subsequent baby teeth. Or as much as they can get selling them on Ebay.

Hmm. Another good point. I could throw the mrs under the bus:
Remember how you used to get five bucks a tooth and then it went down to .75 then to .50, etc. Well, your mom used to take the paper money from under your pillow before I woke up...

Haggis!

but why should the tooth fairy's generosity have any bearing on how kids treat their parents as they age?

Besides, our tooth fairy is usually tired, stressed and/or drunk, so I think they're pretty impressed if she remembers at all :lol: ....although she managed to find her way to zippyt's house that one time and she pays for swallowed teeth.

Eventually you'll slip up and they'll suss you out. Then when they are older and hate you and are looking for an excuse to dump you off in the care of sadists, they'll drag out that cheap tooth fairy bit and use it as the final nail in your coffin.

she leaves more than their allowance.... well, when they were little anyway! I think our tooth fairy must've stowed away in our suitcases when we emmigrated, she sure is mean. :lol:

I got about $50/tooth. Of course it went straight to the dentist...
Recently I've had to pay the $50/tooth. Fucking tooth fairy sucks.

Tooth fairy's gonna be broke. On Wednesday Thor had spacers put in in prep for his expander in a couple of weeks

On Wednesday night, the tooth in front of the tooth in front of one spacer popped out. On Thursday night, same tooth on the other side. today, one of the ones directly in front of the spacer....

...and the poor little bugger has to go and get two canines extracted in the next few weeks and I've heard she's especially generous in such cases

At least he gets some money, and some Monie.

I shattered an important molar a few weeks ago. I guess I am grinding my teeth too much.

That sucks. My job used to be so stressful years ago that I would grind my teeth all the time at night. My wife would too, because her job was even worse. We were both doing that paralegal crap. We promised to wake each other up if we the other was grinding their teeth. So then we were stressed and sleep deprived.

I'm sorry you are feeling the stress.

Watch out for TMJ pain. The popping, involuntary dislocating, and locking of my jaw has gotten so bad recently that my dentist insisted I go see an orthodontist. You ever want to feel depressingly old, just go be an adult in an orthodontist's office for a few minutes.

The 150 bucks I paid for my night guard (this was sans insurance...remember I had once again broken my caps, this time after losing my job. With insurance it would have cost a lot more but would have cost me about the same...go figure. But I digress.)
It goes on my bottom teeth. I feel weird sleeping without it now. I was reading and napped for a bit and as I was falling asleep I felt my teeth start doing their dance. The night guard keeps my jaw aligned and prevents my bottom teeth from pushing into my top teeth, as well as keeping the space between my back teeth so I'm not ruining those too. Since it was made for me, the appliance also acts as a sort of retainer for my bottom teeth, keeping them from starting to overlap as I get older.
It's very durable. It's so much better than the ones I was buying at the pharmacy...in fact those probably didn't do my mouth any favors.
Highly recommended. Tooth repair will cost you much more in the long run, unless you're fine with running around with effed up teeth, which I was not.

So the football mouth guards are not good enough?

I was advised by friends to try those. The ones you boil and mold (mould?) To your teeth that aren't made for football aren't really good enough. At 20 bucks a pop, and them being chewed through regularly (you have no idea the constant power of your jaw when you are sleeping, as opposed to protecting against occasional bumps to the head in football.)
Maybe you were joking, maybe i 'm a dental prothesis snob. I'm just telling you the advantages of a guard made by a dentist, and the eventual cost.savings.
Break more teeth, see if i care. ;)

No, I was just wondering.

I've got to go see my dentist and I'll ask him.

I'm seeing the surgeon for my other shoulder on thursday. I'm hoping that will work out considering the whole medicaid affordable care crap.

I'm kinda creeped out by the tooth fairy.

How about this tooth fairy? (comes in at about 1 min)