What To Do With Your Kids Teeth

When Your Child Loses Their Teeth

​As a parent, when your kids lose their teeth, you have to make sure it is a special moment for them.  From the first visit to the dentist, to when they lose their first tooth, kids can feel a little anxiety of issues with their teeth.  Kids need to feel excited about the process instead of having anxiety and fearing to have pain.  Making sure the tooth fairy makes a visit and leaves a special gift gives them a reward they something special just happened.  Now you think about what can be done with the teeth, now that the tooth fairy paid a visit?  Some parents just get rid of the teeth, while most parents keep the teeth in a drawer for sentimental reasons.  Some people think that its kind of weird to put the teeth in a drawer, others just have to collect all the teeth, but just don't know what to do with them.  If you want to hold onto the teeth, but just don't know what to do them, these area few ideas for you. 

Ideas For Saving Your Child's Baby Teeth

Memory Box
Buy or use a nice box around the house that you can store the teeth in a safe place. Some online websites make memory boxes specifically designed to save an store kids teeth, with a specific inserts for each tooth from your child.

Baby Book
Baby books are a great place to store memories.  One idea is to put the teeth in envelope and place the envelope in the age year as appropriate.  There can be an envelope for every year they have lost teeth.  This is a wonderful addition the age memories within the book. A lot of parents just want to store the first of the lost teeth in the baby book. This may be the best option between saving every tooth or tossing them all out.

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Jewelry Ideas
This one is a little weird or odd, but you can get keepsake baby teeth jewelry from online stores like Etsy! Vendors  offer a couple of options.  The first option is that some make mold the shape of the teeth and make jewelry out of that.  The second is making the jewelry design that includes the actual tooth as the main charm piece or accentuated pieces.

Teeth For Stem Cell Demand 
Using teeth for stem cell preservation is a costly and also relatively new medical development, yet keeping your kids teeth may one day be helpful in possible medical circumstances down the line. Scientists have actually discovered a method to preserve peoples teeth and use them to draw out the stem cells when needed.  This process can be used in case your child may ever have a medical demand for them. If this may be a possible option for you, then talk to your dentist about the available resources, because the teeth need to stored in a designated storage operation when teeth immediately fall out. Speak to your dentist to see if this tooth preservation for stem cell option could be a beneficial option for the teeth.

​Use Teeth For Science Projects
When your kids are in grade school and Jr high, they can get involved in science fairs.  If you have held onto the baby teeth, they can do fun research experiments with the teeth, like testing how various liquids (coffee, cola, tea, sport drinks) effect the teeth staining and corrosion.  
This task can give them rewards for encouraging them to brush their teeth more often after drinking soda or sugary, acidic beverages.

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