So what does the Tooth Fairy do with all those teeth?

[Hathor]

Need to know by midnight or she will not be able to answer ds's letter that is tucked under his pillow.
Anyone know what she does with all the teeth?

Well, ours pops them in a special pot for mummy to keep...can't bear to get rid of them, but got caught out

Gruesome!

d'you know, I've never thought of it as gruesome, but I suppose it is really - bit Desperate Housewives/teeth under the floorboards

I met a first time dad once who was saving his babies first nail clippings in a little matchbox! I think in some cultures they save the umbilical cord too, to bury with the person when they die so they can be complete (or was that just a book I read )

Anyway, back to the tooth fairy.
Who is the house for Califrau?

build fairy castles..this is where the expression ivory towers and castles in the air comes from

I keep all my kid's milk teeth. Keep threatening to make a necklace out of them.

DD wanted to send a letter to the tooth fairy last time she lost a tooth, because she wanted to know if there was one fairy or several - the plan was to compare the answer with one her friend had had from the tooth fairy and see if the writing was the same. Devious little thing. But I managed to head it off (had visions of having to contact the other girl's mum and drive round to get a note).

A palace for the fairies.
Any more details?

ds has a book called The Tooth Tairy - in that she uses the teeth to make the white keys on a little fairy piano. I see a couple of 'ishooos' with this:

1. You don't need that many teeth to make a piano (unless she makes them for all her fairy mates)
2. She's going to need a lot of black teeth too. Nice.

(She also has a serious smelting machine in a cave where she makes money - she is quite a nails fairy I suspect!!)

When DS lost his first tooth it just happened to co-incide with a friends baby getting her first tooth through so DS formed the theory that the teeth come back as new teeth for babies

In our house she grinds them up into fairy dust. DD2 is seven and totally believes this.

In our house the fairy uses the teeth to build her fairy castle too ... she has plenty of pound coins but they don't make good building materials because they roll away ... so she swaps them for teeth

Not sure if my dds (9 and 8) still believe this but they certainly pretend if not so that they get their pound

In my house the Tooth Fairy uses them for all the castles in Tooth Fairyland.

The Tooth Fairy has many helpers and they all use different scraps of paper and some even have a computer that prints out their letters.

There are often Bank-Holidays in Tooth fairyland but you can be assured (or at least hope) that they will visit as soon as the banks open.

Sometimes the Tooth Fairy will be skint; maybe she had to pay the castle builders up front and now needs to apply to the bank for an overdraft. Of course if it is a bank holiday then this could take some time - so she leaves an I.O.U with a full explanation.

Sometimes the tooth fairy is so overworked that she doesn't have time to call - so she phones the mum (only mums can here the phone ring when it comes from tooth fairyland) to ask if she will pass on the message that she will call the following night (providing mum doesn't fall asleep and forget again)

My son will either a. growe up scarred or b. be fully prepared for the real world

she plants them in the sky and they blossom into stars. That's what our storybook says anyway

She grinds them up for witch powder. Do not let her get them. Label them and date them and wrap them up in a hundred miles of selotape and store them somewhere weird.

All too creepy - witches and weirdy castles. Especially as he lost the 2 top ones so looks like a vampire now!!
The tooth fairy told him they turn into gold (and left some for him - said he is going to buy sweets - told him the fairy wouldn't like that and the gold would disappear (duh)). Hey - why not start a whole other legend if you don't like the ones going round?