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amother

Black

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 8:32 am

What do you do with the teeth once they fall out? Keep? Dispose? If so, how?

Iymnok

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 8:37 am

They keep them in a small container.
My mother threw them out her window into the garden, she said she was planting rocks.

amother

Smokey

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 9:05 am

Asking seriously - is this addressed in Halacha?

rgr

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 9:45 am

"Disappear " them quietly

FranticFrummie

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 10:38 am

Iymnok wrote:

They keep them in a small container.
My mother threw them out her window into the garden, she said she was planting rocks.

I'm laughing so hard right now!

I can totally see your mom doing that.

I keep DD's teeth in a small jewelry box. DD thinks it's gross and morbid, and that I should toss them. I can't help it, I'm sentimental!

Iymnok

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 10:42 am

FranticFrummie wrote:

Every year when she plants the garden, she harvests them. Sometimes the teeth have grown into quite impressive rocks.

amother

Scarlet

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 10:43 am

Save them. There's some promising research out there on stem cell therapy from baby teeth and we never know when that could come to good use.

WastingTime

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 11:35 am

Uh...garbage...

amother

Burlywood

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 11:49 am

The tooth is placed under the child's pillow for the tooth fairy to exchange for a quarter. The tooth fairy takes the tooth with him/her.

chani8

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 12:02 pm

My policy is to give the child five shekels to throw their baby teeth into the garbage.

There is no halacha, afaik, but you can probably regard it the same as you would fingernails or hair. Throw it away and wash your hands.

amother

Khaki

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 3:13 pm

My mother buys off my kids teeth. A dollar per tooth. I have no clue what she does with them.

amother

Gold

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 3:41 pm

I typically clean them, put them in a tiny plastic bag, tuck the precious keepsake away in a safe place to figure out what to do with it later, and then when I am cleaning up months later and find it and have no idea which kid it belongs to anymore I throw it away.

Seas

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 5:18 pm

I string them on a necklace as a warning to my enemies.

(That's a joke BTW)

imasinger

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 5:22 pm

Seas wrote:

I string them on a necklace as a warning to my enemies.

Fox

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 5:31 pm

Seas wrote:

I string them on a necklace as a warning to my enemies.

(That's a joke BTW)

I do something similar! I didn't save my kids' teeth, but when I had all-on-four implants done a few years ago, the oral surgeon gave me all my old teeth in a nice little box.

Except old permanent teeth aren't cute like baby teeth. In fact, they're seriously nasty-looking. Plus, the whole reason they'd fallen apart was because of prolonged antibiotic exposure when I was a teenager, so they're even nastier-looking than normal.

But I keep the box in my bedside drawer, and when DH pushes me too far, I take it out and say, "Hey, wanna see my teeth?" Since he is possibly the most squeamish person in the history of mankind, this makes him shudder and instantly drop whatever topic has me agitated in favor of arguing about why taunting him with my old teeth is wrong.

Listen, you get to a certain age and you take your entertainment where you find it. Very Happy

abaker

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 9:21 pm

we asked our rav who said no problem, throw them in the trash. however I think my parents may have some of my baby teeth stashed somewhere, but eww in my opinion.

amother

Wheat

Wed, Sep 12 2018, 9:35 pm

eww throw them away.

don't be like my MIL who saved her baby's upsherin hair for 30 years and then gave it to me??!!! wth?? I immediately tossed that "gift" in the trash.

dee's mommy

Thu, Sep 13 2018, 1:20 pm

My daughter set the precedent by "loosing" her first tooth. (It fell out at school, and then she lost it before coming home.) The principal gave some perspective by saying "don't worry, they are supposed to be lost." Since then, I haven't bothered to save them.

amother

Aqua

Thu, Sep 13 2018, 1:35 pm

I keep a few in the freezer in case I ever need DNA samples, G-d forbid.

amother

Black

Thu, Sep 13 2018, 1:45 pm

Iymnok wrote:

My mother threw them out her window into the garden, she said she was planting rocks.

OP here. This is my favorite. I'm tired of keeping them in a jewelry box for more than a decade, so they can be buried right outside my bedroom window. Very Happy

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