TOOTH FAIRY

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The Tooth Fairy gives out an average of more than $5 per lost tooth, according to the 2022 Original Tooth Fairy Poll from Delta Dental. The 24-year-record pay out for a lost tooth is $5.36, the poll said. The value of a lost tooth has more than quadrupled since the start of the poll in 1998 when a child was given an average of $1.30 per lost tooth. Last year, the average gift from the Tooth Fairy was $4.70, according to the poll. Bride, groom angry when wedding cake goes viral for all the wrong reasons

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I admit that as we get older, things sometimes get a little exaggerated when we’re forced to make a point about how good kids have it these days.

ANN ARBOR, MI – The “Tooth Fairy” is back to greeting visitors to the University of Michigan. Created by sculptor Bill Barrett in 1969, the The 14-foot-tall Tooth Fairy was installed at the School of Dentistry in 1971. In June, it was returned to the school and placed in its new home in the West Courtyard, which is open to the public. Click on the link below to see a video of the construction of the courtyard and return of the Tooth Fairy. Regents ‘censoring’ University of Michigan sexual abuse survivors, according to new lawsuitNew Ann Arbor law aims to protect night skies from light pollutionNever-before seen 9/11 photos part of University of Michigan professor’s new documentary

The Original Tooth Fairy Poll has typically mirrored the economy’s overall direction, tracking with the trends of Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500) for 16 of the past 19 years. The Tooth Fairy’s average cash gift just reached $4.70, its highest point in the annual Delta Dental poll’s 23-year history. In Arkansas, as across the South, the Tooth Fairy pays about $4.45, tracking the U.S. average most closely. Baby teeth fetch the least in the Midwest ($3.66), and the most in the North ($5.72) and the West ($5.54). “The annual Tooth Fairy Poll is a bit of light-hearted fun to draw attention to good oral care, starting with baby teeth,” said Dave Hawsey, vice president of marketing at Delta Dental of Arkansas.

"), grown-ups around the world have understood that embracing science doesn't mean abandoning the magic of childhood. And just last month, in Prince George in western Canada, Vice Principal Shandee Whitehead faced a Tooth Fairy crisis when five-year-old Gavin Jensen lost his front tooth … twice. "I was confirming that it was actually lost," Whitehead explained. Please accept this letter as official verification of a lost tooth, and provide the standard monetary exchange rate you normally use for a real tooth." Hart Highlands Elementary School"When I woke up in the morning, the Tooth Fairy actually did came!"

Preserving childhood magic in a time of COVID CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook on how a child's sense of wonder can be fostered even when a pandemic may get in the way of the Tooth Fairy.

click to enlarge Screengrab, Gov. Whitmer's TwitterLeaders everywhere have heard a few concerns from children, so I wanted to be sure to address two important topics with our kids the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. pic.twitter.com/nNgr7gO0hp Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) April 8, 2020Gov. "But they are excited to visit you and simply ask that you be sure to listen to your parents. Make sure you wash your hands so that you can stay happy and stay healthy.

And, in an upsetting turn, he lost his lost tooth. Curt Angeli, the principal at Gillett Elementary in Wisconsin, wrote a letter to the Tooth Fairy to certify that his first-grade student had actually lost his tooth. Parents and other students were looking everywhere for the lost tooth, but they couldn't find it. The student was worried the Tooth Fairy wouldn't know he had lost his tooth, so Angeli told him he would go get him a note. "Please accept this letter as official verification of a lost tooth and provide the standard monetary exchange rate you normally use for a real tooth," the letter said.

Charles Osgood addresses viewers' comments over a recent segment in which comedian Jim Gaffigan took issue with the Tooth Fairy, and shares some thoughts for those that may have felt a little discouraged about putting a tooth under their pillow, expecting a surprise.

Any parent of a young child will tell you kids are expensive. To make matters worse, little kids have very little understanding of money. Comedian Jim Gaffigan explains why, when it comes to the loss of teeth, family economics is anything but child's play.