What to do with a very loose tooth

Not only would I do it, I have done it and as lately as this past summer. I have two grown boys and "tough" as they are, seemed to get theirs out on their own. My poor little granddaughter was having a terrible time with her first one. It was barely hanging in there, like Sandy described. It was so distracting for her. HUGE DRAMA! She couldn't eat, didn't want to go to swimming lessons and so on and so forth. She asked me if I would "get it out for her" so I did. She flung her arms around me and said "thank you grandma" and in that moment, nothing else in the world mattered. She was now a "big girl". It might hurt somewhat but the little "pain" was nothing compairded to everything else it was doing to her. I was glad she trusted me and I was able to come through for her. She then came to me with the second one and the result was the same so I would "assume" I will be her private tooth puller.

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Ew -- retrieved? Our tooth fairy accepts notes. So far we've had one swallowed, one lost somewhere in the bed when it fell out during a sleepover and had to be shown off to the friend sleeping over, and one accidentally dropped down the sink when I tried to wash the blood off.

That last one got ripped out be me unintentionally when I was pulling a shirt off over her head, snagged the shirt on the tooth and produced copious amounts of blood and wailing. But the pain was over fairly quickly when she realized this meant another visit from the tooth fairy.

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I remember pulling a couple of my own teeth. My brother was just starting to get his first teeth at the time, so I'd sneak some baby Oragel out of the medicine cabinet, numb up the area, close my eyes, and yank on the tooth. The anticipation of how much it'd hurt was always worse than the reality.

If my son asks, I'll help, but otherwise, I'll let nature take its course.

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I will never forget the time my mother was taking me to the dentist for a loose tooth and when we got in the parking lot, she reached in the back seat to tie my shoe and knocked my tooth out with her elbow! we sat in the car for the longest time, me crying, her laughing. I was not amused. but now, 28 years later I guess its a little funny :)

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The girls just worried at their teeth until they came out - sometimes before they should.

One of them tried to "lose" the same tooth twice so she could double dip on the tooth fairy. It didn't work.

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Little Man isn't old enough yet for tooth-pulling, but I distinctly remember two lost teeth of my own -
One was lost one winter while I skated on our back-yard ice rink. I tripped (toe pick!), fell, out came the tooth. My folks, brothers and I spent the better part of the evening searching for that tooth, to no avail. I was beside myself that evening... How would I get my quarter if I had no tooth for the Tooth Fairy. So I left a note under my pillow, explaining the situation to Ms. Fairy. Next morning, I found a note from her. She had found the tooth, she said, and left the quarter in it's place. It was up to me to locate that quarter. On came the skates, and I FLEW across that ice. There, under the oak tree, was a quarter. Frozen into the top layer of ice.

Another time, I swallowed the tooth (I was a very active child...). Left a similar note to the Fairy. Next morning, there was a quarter TAPED to my tummy!

Ahhh.... I can't wait for Little Man to be old enough for this stuff! Priceless.

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when my son, now 6 1/2 lost his first tooth, he did it overnight and swollowed it. ugh. i also had a nice pewter box to hold the first tooth lost. ok, i was determined to keep the second tooth lost. that came only a couple weeks later when he knocked out a top tooth. i hurried off to the daycare as fast as i could and i actually had it in my hand when my son then wanted to hold the cup it was in. when he walked away and back 30 seconds later, the tooth was gone, he had no idea what happened. UGH, no tooth number two. so when tooth number three was barely hanging on by a thread i trapped him down and yanked it out and would not let him touch it! LOL. i now have a tooth, albeit, the third tooth, but still a tooth, and good story to tell his wife about how he caused me gray hairs on my head, lol.

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My son is 5 and hasn't had the opportunity to get a "wiggly one" yet. But I can remember when I was a kid I pulled all of mine by myself. I think there were only 3 teeth that were pulled by someone else. one was from my grandma, and the other 2 were the dentist. I became so good at it my mom and dad appointed me family dentist for my younger sister (by 2 1/2 yrs) also. I always thought it was cool to pull my own teeth. yes I'm wierd that way.

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LS, that is too cute.. Good ideas too :) Thanks!

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