What's the going rate for teeth nowadays?

So the eldest is now 6 with a wiggly tooth.. SWMBO and I are trying to figure out what the street value of a tooth is? I don't have any good mob connections to price out what an "extraction" is going for to ask, either :)

One dollar coin. Extraction is still doorknob & floss?

Yup, same payout here

We use Sacajawea dollars. They're gold, which is pretty awesome, and the tooth fairy is the only source of them in our house. We got a couple of rolls from the bank when the oldest got a wiggly tooth and they'll last through all the kids.

When I was a kid, we put them in a cup of water in the kitchen window. The first night, the Tooth Fairy put coins in, and subsequent nights the coin amount decreased over about 3 days. The cup in the window thing might be a Dutch tradition, versus under the pillow, etc.

Based on my limited understanding of such things, it seems as if most Dutch traditions are water based.

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Relevant episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast is relevant. And berking creepy.

I've been hearing some seriously ridiculous amounts lately, so I've been curious what more normal people were paying. Don't need to worry about it for a while, but hearing about kids getting $5 to $10 PER TOOTH sounded totally berking nuts. A friend of my kids mom mentioned paying $20 per, which confused me until I realized her 7 year old had a new iphone, and she was just an idiot(not wealthy, debt ridden).

I got 50 cents for little ones, a dollar for big ones, but a dollar or two (Maybe 5 for the very last one) sounds fair to me these days.

Never got a penny for any of them. Mother put them in a little box as "keepsakes". When my brother was cleaning out the house because he sold it a couple years ago he found both our boxes.

Dollar sounds right to me; but that is what I got in 1997. Adjusted for inflation, add in an extra 50 cents

Your kids will know the going rate in their friend groups. The going rate in our neck of the woods is two plain old US dollars. Have fun being really nervous about waking them up.

I got a stack of crisp new 2 dollar bills from the bank. They are fun and special enough for teeth and can be used to tip pole dancers as well.

Not sure what the tooth fairy pays these days, but I hope all the ones lost during his/her life are intentional.

Had an implant on Friday. I have two (good) dental policies. Still paid $1800 out of pocket. No anesthesia, only local. Still doesn't cover the crown that I need in 8-12 months.

Friends wife got a complete replacement set of uppers and lowers tgat are perminant implants. I think it was somthing like $40,000.

Thanks for all the good ideas.. SWMBO said she used to get a quarter, so I put that into the ol' inflation calculator and it says that it would be 53 cents now-a-days, so a dollar seems appropriate. I've heard of those brats getting $20 per tooth, which makes me think of this:

I hope that the kids don't have as many teeth problems as I had, and that they don't need 40k implants!

Remind me again why Dental isn't regular health coverage?

Good question. I had AIG that I carried through my employer. Our Blue Cross is one of the so-called "Cadillac" plans that are pretty much disappearing nowadays. All Co-Pays are $5 or $10. Dental is very similar, but the coverage ceiling is much lower.

I carry a second plan through Advance Auto (Delta), because it costs very little to keep. It also kicked in for a similar amount.

Luckily, I was able to pay that money out of my Flex Spending Account. Well, I paid cash up front and now I need to wait "7-14 Business Days" for reimbursement. We'll see how that goes...

I found going to sedation dentistry and paying cash saved a huge chunk of money, as they charge "welfare insurance" process to cash customers. 4 wisdom teeth and a broken molar pulled, sedation was 600, teeth were 35 each, their cheapest insurance price was almost triple that.

There are third party and standalone dental insurance that vary by state and even county.extremely worth the 1-200 bucks for the coverage to save a good bit on larger procedures. My friend Mike had 6 pulled plus work, a crown and root canal, for less than a grand out of pocket after he got the third party insurance.

I'm slowly saving up for full replacement, but like Dean mentioned, it's not cheap. Bad teeth run in the family, and I'm not exactly on top of taking care of them like I should be, so a full replacement in 10-15 years isn't a terrible idea.even if it does cost me an entry level rally car.

My daughter gets one dollar. Seems reasonable.

We are in the middle of this too, and we have been giving our daughter a Loonie (Canadian dollar coin) for each tooth.

$2 CAD which works out to about 10 cents in USD

One day our kid lost a tooth, he put it under his pillow and we just completely forgot. While he was sleeping he must have knocked the tooth between the headboard and matress. He woke up and the conversation went like this

Kid; "The tooth fairy took my tooth but didn't leave me any money!!!"

Me; "The tooth fairy robbed you?"

Kid; "YEAH!!!!!"

Me; "I guess you should just be glad you didn't wake up with a black eye."

The whole reason I had kids was to do messed up stuff like that.

We did the gold dollar - maybe $2 for the first tooth, $1 thereafter. My son knew what the monetary amount was, but he did not care about the amount - to him he got a gold coin and that was awesome.

A buck sounds about right given inflation. I got around a quarter in the early 80s.

Whats a kidney go for these days?.... asking for a friend.

$5 for the 1st tooth. $1 for any tooth after that.