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

[Trills]

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?

[HighwayDragon1]

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

[Coggle]

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.

[Bierss]

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

[12FreeRangeEggs]

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.

[icclemunchy]

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

[Pebblespony]

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).

[ContessaHallelujahSparklehorse]

Glad to see Pterry has been mentioned already

[SpoonBlender]

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!)

[PyongyangKipperbang]

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

[HestiaParthenos]

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.

[ProudAunty2nine]

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

[Eggyricething]

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

[Bunnymumma]

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!

[Bunnymumma]

*fairy! Gah!

[WishfulSprouts]

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

[lynnepot]

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

[EwItsAHooman]

PyongyangKipperbang beat me to it.

The Tooth Fairy eats them.

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

[LittleLlamaontheduskyroad]

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.

[PyongyangKipperbang]

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

dah dah dah dah dah.....

[bringbackthestripes]

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

[Trills]

A POUND COIN?!

Inflation eh?

[Trills]

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.

[loosenknot]

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

[sue51]

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

[ChunkyNotSoKitKat]

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