{"id":928,"date":"2017-12-30T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T03:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citydentists.co.nz\/dental-blog\/industry-news\/tooth-fairy-traditions-from-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T04:21:03","slug":"tooth-fairy-traditions-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citydentists.co.nz\/dental-blog\/tooth-fairy-traditions-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Tooth fairy traditions from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id='pk-id' value='6059166' \/><\/p>\n<p>Like many New Zealand parents, when your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citydentists.co.nz\/dental-blog\/oral-health-wellbeing\/what-you-need-to-know-about-taking-care-of-your-toddlers-teeth\/\">child&#39;s baby teeth<\/a> fall out, you may call upon the tooth fairy to take them away. However, parents in different countries use&nbsp;other methods.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Discover&nbsp;various tooth fairy traditions from around the world that may inspire you to do things a little differently when the next one drops out!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Spanish tooth mouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Spanish-speaking countries, the role of the tooth fairy has been given to a friendly little mouse who goes by the name El Ratoncito Perez.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly to New Zealand&#39;s tooth fairy, El Ratoncito Perez comes into a sleeping child&#39;s room at night to exchange the fallen tooth for a small gift or money.<\/p>\n<p>This folklore is believed to date back to 1877, where El Ratoncito first appeared in &#39;Cuentos, oraciones, adivinanzas y refranes populares&#39; &#8211; a popular Spanish book.<\/p>\n<p>El Ratoncito Perez would later go on to inspire Spanish author Luis Coloma to adapt the mouse into a tooth fairy-type figure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inlineImageWrapper\" style=\"padding-right: 3px; float: left; margin: 10px !important; width: 100% !important; height: auto !important;\">\n<figure style=\"margin: 0px!important; font-style: italic!important;\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Discover different tooth fairy traditions from around the world. \" class=\"inlineImage\" height=\"auto\" id=\"14113648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citydentists.co.nz\/dental-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/x_0_0_0_14113648_800.webp\" width=\"100%\" \/><figurecaption>Does your child believe in the tooth fairy?<\/figurecaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Another rodent in France<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France has also adopted a little mouse as their version of the tooth fairy &#8211; La Petite Souris. The origin&nbsp;of Petite Souris is believed to stem from the 17th century tale, &#39;La Bonne&nbsp;Petite Souris.&#39; Here, the little mouse helps to defeat an evil king by taking all of his teeth while he sleeps! However, for children in France, Petite Souris&nbsp;takes the fallen teeth and leaves a gold coin or sweets instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Throw your teeth in Botswana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Botswana, instead of placing their fallen baby tooth under a pillow, children throw it onto the roof while singing to the moon. In this song, the children ask for a new tooth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullQuoteWrapper\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; width: 25%; float: left; margin: 10px;\">\n<p class=\"pullQuote\" style=\"font-size: 1.4em!important; margin: 0!important; width: 100%!important; font-style: italic!important; \"><i>In Botswana, children throw their baby teeth onto the roof while singing to the moon.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Career-influential teeth in Turkey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parents in Turkey aren&#39;t so willing to give their child&#39;s baby teeth away to fairies, mice or the moon. Instead, they use these teeth for a much more influential purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Baby teeth are thought to determine the child&#39;s future. 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