# What \[i\]Does\[/i\] The Tooth Fairy Do With Those Teeth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [July 20, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981 "2004-07-20T11:23:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981/21 "2004-10-08T10:46:51Z")
My children were talling me the other day that the Ear Wax Fairy collects ear wax and sells it to the tooth fairy to use as mortar when building her fairy castle out of teeth. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981/22 "2004-10-08T14:42:06Z")
“Every time a child belches at the dinner table, a fairy dies.” The earwax fairy would be high on my list. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981/23 "2004-10-08T15:49:54Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > “Every time a child belches at the dinner table, a fairy dies.” The earwax fairy would be high on my list. The wax? No no, it is the hair that is the problem, yes **Dex** -boy? I swear this by the spectacles of my Godmother’s llama, yes? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981/24 "2004-10-11T19:58:09Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Robert McCloskey’s great 1953 children’s book, _One Morning in Maine_, is all about the loss of a first tooth, and the Tooth Fairy makes no appearance…the reward is, instead, the gift of a “secret wish.” Which is used to procure a chocolate ice cream cone, plus a vanilla one for little sister Jane (so the drips won’t spot). In this book, the actual tooth is lost, so it can’t be cashed in for an ice cream cone. Jane finds a seagull feather, and, with the impeccible logic of childhood, determines that losing a feather for a seagull is similar enough to a kid losing her tooth that she can cash in the feather for the ice cream. It therefore became a tradition in our family, that finding a feather when out for a walk entitled us to ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_with\_three\_sons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Paul\_with\_three\_sons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_with_three_sons)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981/25 "2004-10-18T15:45:12Z")
When our son lost his first tooth he what the TF does with the teeth she collects. At the time, his young cousin was about ready to get her first baby teeth, so we suggested that perhaps the tooth fairy gives the collected teeth to other youngsters. It made my son very proud to think that his vestigial teeth might be used to help his younger cousin. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981/26 "2004-10-18T15:56:08Z")
There was a fantastic, creepy, bizarre book I read as a child called [Behind the Attic Wall](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380698439/qid=1098114990/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-5510179-5544966?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) (boy, did I love “abandonded orphaned children” literature!) with this strange old uncle who tells exactly what the Tooth Fairy does with all those teeth: she makes tooth tea! But once in a while, she gets confused, and uses two teeth instead of one, which results in two tooth tea. “Two tooth tea is too, too tart!” ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981/27 "2004-10-18T21:15:59Z")
She gives them to the [Langoliers](http://www.clubdesmonstres.com/langoliers.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Faldage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Faldage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faldage)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981/28 "2004-10-18T23:37:38Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Knock, Knock! > > (Door Opening) > > Female Voice: Yeah? (You can _hear_ the curlers in her hair) > > Tooth Fairy: Hello, I’m the Tooth Fairy. And I doth come… > > (Door slams, cutting him off.) Well, I should hope he’d get the door slammed in his face, using such terrible grammar; imagine, a third person singular verb used with a first person singular subject. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-does-i-the-tooth-fairy-do-with-those-teeth/255981.md?page=1)