![]() While inflation makes adults and the Tooth Fairy sweat alike, kids’ Piggy Banks jungle with glee. ![]() In the Midwest kids average $5.63. While still trailing the national average, it went up $1.36 (32%). In the Northeast the rate went down to $6.14, dropping below the national average, after leading last year with $7.36 for a lost tooth. increased 53%, despite being only two cents higher than the national average. regions led the rankings with the highest monetary gift for a lost tooth, marking a 14% increase since last year’s results, according the newTooth Fair poll data. At this rate, in 2048, the Tooth Fairy would be leaving a whopping $30 under the pillow for a single tooth. Since the poll’s inception, the average cash gift left by the Tooth Fairy has surged 379% from $1.30 to $6.23 per tooth. ![]() It’s a record high in the 25-year history of the poll. Even the Tooth Fairy got hit by inflation.Īccording to the latest data from Delta Dental’s Original Tooth Fairy Poll®, the average value of a single lost tooth during the past year increased 16% from $5.36 in 2022 to $6.23 in 2023. Tecumseh Ridge Dental’s Mascot and close personal friend of the Tooth FairyĢ023 Update: The latest numbers don’t lie. Everything you need to know about the Tooth Fairy By Mojo The Monkey ![]() For this occasion, we turned over our blog to resident Tecumseh Ridge Kids Expert, Mojo The Monkey. The dollar coins were special-if not as special-sounding as glitter money-and also let me skate out the teeth-losing years for just $20 a kid.February is National Children’s Dental Health Month. My kids were definitely going to hit me up to buy them Squishmallows-like things anyway, and grandma sends $5 bills for holidays. Banks will trade them for dollar bills, but I usually just ran to my nearest subway-token machine and bought one ride with a large bill so that some dollar coins would come spilling out as change. The angst, for me, was just getting ahold of them. In their elementary-school years, my kids, at least, were thrilled for them, because the coins were rare and special in that they only appeared from the tooth fairy. Kids under 10 are more likely to get excited about that big dollar coin than a $5 paper bill. Other Reddit users suggested my favorite solution: Slipping kids a $2 bill or a $1 coin. A Reddit user named OasisGhost recently posted that classmates were getting “quarters, notes, glitter money, and even a $20 bill.” First, what is glitter money (and can you still spend it?), and second, there’s no keeping up the $20-a-tooth game is there? Are you really prepared to give each kid $400 for their twenty baby teeth? Basically every five teeth, they can buy a 16-inch Squishmallow, which seems like an acceptable algorithm.Ī quick check on Reddit showed that there is a range of what American kids are getting. Five dollars, twenty times, is a nice hundred bucks that kids can make between about age 6, when the middle teeth usually go, and age 12, when the last of the molars tend to vacate the premises. Regifting a child’s own money aside, let’s do the multiplication. And I think we took the quarters from her room.” That was calculated in 2021, pre-inflation of course, so we’re betting it’s more of an even $5 these days.įor confirmation I turned to my brother, knowing my 8-year-old niece, Sara, has been dropping teeth left and right lately. Do you expand the story to reveal that the tooth fairy only works certain days of the week? Explain the details of an IOU? And finally, how much cash are you expected to scrounge up?Īccording to the experts at Delta Dental, who have been studying tooth-fairy payouts for more than 20 years, the average gift is now up to $4.70 per tooth. For parents, a frantic search for whatever cash is on hand makes the whole thing a bit more of a farce. Lost teeth are a cause for celebration, at least for kids.
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