What does the Tooth Fairy want children's teeth FOR?

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I can only think of nightmarish answers.

Does she eat them?

Does she build a castle out of them?

Is it because if a witch gets a part of your body the witch can curse you, and the tooth fairy's job is to keep you safe from that?

They are ground up and used as fairy dust to let the fairies fly. That's why she leaves money, she's buying fairy dust off you

I once went to an exhibition which included a sculpture made out of children's teeth. It also included an armchair filled with human fat.

Was coming on to say read The Hogfather but I see @Nitpickpicnic, @HavelockVetinari and others have already got there.

When DD was 6 she declared “i’m not giving away bits of me for money” and the tooth fairy never visited our house again.

Karou uses them to make the chimeras new bodies....

It's her job. Why does anyone do anything? Why does daddy go to the office? (My mother's explanation. Fully accepted, question never asked again).

Glad to see Pterry has been mentioned already

It's a question Terry Pratchett covered in his usual dark-comic way :)

As a kid I must have not been good at joined up thinking as I never wondered when my milk teeth were popping out. It was a straight up source of 50p coins to me (although tbf I did know DM/DF were doing the swap, I was usually awake longer than them as a kid and would fake sleep!)

Yep, he does indeed eat them......

Is it because if a witch gets a part of your body the witch can curse you, and the tooth fairy's job is to keep you safe from that?

Seems obvious.

Though I wonder where the hair fairy and the nail clippings fairy are. I suppose they just never got as famous because they don't pay for stuff.

They are used in the infrastructure of fairy land ....

She's a narcissist - it's all me, me, me with the tooth fairy.

My tooth fury left me notes with little pictures of the lovely new baths and bathroom suites that all the tooth fairies had because of my teeth. I liked that they had a use but I was quite a pragmatic kid!

*fairy! Gah!

I was told that she took them to give to babies which is like a whole new nightmare really 🤔

great thread.

I don't think I ever asked my parents this question when I was young. I never gave it any thought anyhow. If my ds asks me the question i'll go along with the one about the fairy giving them to new born children

PyongyangKipperbang beat me to it.

The Tooth Fairy eats them.

Dah-dah-dah-dah-dah....

I never thought about until I had my DC. I asked my oldest what she thought and she gave me the castle explanation. Seems logical.

I have to turn that episode off when it comes on @EwItsAHooman.....it turns my stomach!

dah dah dah dah dah.....

They use them as stools so they have something to sit on round the mushroom tables

A POUND COIN?!

Inflation eh?

A fairy who found a child's tooth big enough to use as a stool would not be able to carry a pound coin comfortably.

She makes gruesome necklaces and hoarded them. she kept a special place next to princess Kate for my daughter's

They plant them in their fairy garden and they grow into beautiful flowers. My kids bought it.

She turns them in to wishes for all the good boys and girls