What The Tooth Fairy Does With All the Teeth 

We often get contacted by parents who want to know what Tooth Fairy does with all the teeth and indeed, if you have been surfing the net, you will find that there are an awful lot of answers to this question.  Consequently, we have written this short article about what we know on the subject.  (If you want to find out more in the form of letters from the Tooth Fairy herself, you may want to consider joining our club.) 

      The Tooth Fairy is basically the builder of Fairyland.  Small and dainty she may be, but she spends a good deal of her time up to her armpits in bricks and cement. 

      One of the favourite places for all fairies to live is in bright, white houses on the tops of clouds.  There are two reasons for this, one is that it is much sunnier up there above all the rain and the other is that they can’t be seen by grown-ups looking up from the ground.  However, in order to camouflage their houses further, there are very strict planning laws which govern the cloud-top buildings of fairy folk. In a nutshell, all houses must be as white as the clouds they are sitting upon.  This is where the Tooth Fairy steps in.  She collects all the strong, white teeth from children so that she can use them to build these fairy homes. 

      The squarish teeth from the back of the mouth are used as bricks to build the walls, while the flat ones from the front of the mouth are used as slates for the roofs.  The Tooth Fairy is always on the lookout for more teeth because there are always new fairy houses to be built.  It’s very important for children to brush their teeth regularly so that their teeth stay strong and the houses that the Tooth Fairy builds stay standing.

      She herself lives up on top of a cloud as well, along with her many helpers.  They have a very large, magical house called “Minty Mist Mansion”, which again is entirely built out of children’s teeth.  On one side of her house, she has built an observatory with a very special telescope that she points down through gaps in the clouds to see what is going on down below.  Children should be reminded that the Tooth Fairy may be watching them any time they are out and about and should they see a little flash or a sparkle in the sky it could well be the glass in her telescope catching the sunlight, in which case they could give her a little wave!