Tooth fairy for a 21 year old

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<p>Our S, home on winter break during his junior year of college, just had all four wisdom teeth pulled. The Tooth Fairy visited him the night after the extraction and left a little something under his pillow, just as she had always done when he lost baby teeth. </p>

<p>TF had thought long and hard about this visit beforehand because the boy was now a man (at least on the outside) and might not be excited about her visit. But, it turns out TF made the right decision. He was really, really thrilled. </p>

<p>If any of you find yourselves in a similar situation, you might want to let the TF know your house should remain on her list.</p>

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<p>What did TF leave under the pillow? Wisdom teeth are very big teeth.</p>

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<p>Awwwwwwwwwwwwww…!!!</p>

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<p>Our tradition has always been to leave a $2 bill for each tooth, so she left 4 of them. </p>

<p>TF got nothing in return because he had not brought the actual teeth home from the procedure.</p>

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<p>Every man is a baby again when he has his wisdom teeth pulled.</p>

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<p>Great idea!</p>

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<p>And every woman.</p>

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<p>When I was a grown-up and married, I had my four wisdom teeth out. I put the teeth under my pillow, and the tooth fairy replaced them with what had been her usual fee for my teeth, quarters. It took a little prompting to my spouse, but the tooth fairy did come.</p>

<p>Many years later, when our children were questioning whether or not there was a tooth fairy, we could answer honestly that the tooth fairy came to a grown-up.</p>

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<p>Very sweet. Why not? Hey I have never admitted certain truths about a bearded guy that visits our house every Christmas. Never. I still insist, and my kids are 19 and 23. It always cracks them up. The oldest said that as long as he keeps getting presents, he’ll keep believing. The youngest used to try to catch the old guy in the act.</p>

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<p><em>prints page and slips paper under mom’s pillow</em></p>

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<p>My older teen had his wisdom teeth out this summer and the tooth fairy visited him - left a note (per our tradition) and I forget what else. Son was very amused. TF’s visit was the right decision.</p>

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<p>Great, happy thread. We also have traditions we keep- when I wrap them a sandwich (ok, for their summer jobs or the road trip back to school,) they get a sticker on the outside.</p>

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<p>YMMV. </p>

<p>When I went to get my wisdom teeth pulled some years back, the dentist I had and the anesthetic was so good that despite the fact I was fully conscious, I didn’t even realized he pulled them all out until he told me the procedure was over. </p>

<p>Took around 20 minutes and I thought he was doing preliminary exams/preparatory work before the actual pulls. </p>

<p>Unfortunately, unlike the dentists of my childhood/adolescence, it seems dentists aren’t allowed to return pulled teeth to patients as it’s considered “biohazard waste”. </p>

<p>Wonder if the TF will make an allowance for that… :D</p>

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<p>Just to clarify, then can return your teeth. The difference is the regulations re: teeth that are being disposed of, by the dentist. Check CDC. And, state regs can trump.</p>

<p>In any event, leaving them with the dentist spares the TF-- ours were always tiny sprites, barely able to carry that quarter. They preferred paper money.</p>

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<p>So cute…</p>

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<p>True. The CDC Bloodborne Pathogens Standards have a “Tooth Fairy Exclusion” where the standard of treating extracted teeth as biohazardous waste does not apply if the teeth are returned to the patient.</p>

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<p>I have all my kids’ baby teeth saved in old prescription bottles. I’m not sure why but they were so cute I didn’t want to throw them out.</p>

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<p>One of my kids saved his teeth for a while. Then he decided to find out if diet soda would really dissolve them. Ah, science. :)</p>

<p>He still has wisdom teeth to pull. We’ll see what happens this time.</p>