What is National Tooth Fairy Day?
National Tooth Fairy Day, February 28th, encourages us to take a look back at the past of one of dental care's little helpers. It's one of many ways our children learn good dental hygiene.
The tooth fairy is a relative newcomer to childhood fantasies, like some of the amazing creations that supervise children..
1920s
Fairies were used for all sorts of health education in the mid-1920s, from bath fairies to fresh air fairies as a way to encourage children to eat their vegetables, wash behind their ears, and get a good night's sleep. The pastes were mainly peroxide and baking soda, and like toothpaste today, fruity flavors and sparkles are sure to get kids excited to brush their teeth. One of Fairy Wand Tooth Whitener's advertisements was for a Fairy Wand Tooth Whitener. This product was supposed to remove cigarette and coffee stains from cigarette and coffee stains.. We hope the ad was targeted at both children and adults, as well as adults.
Esther Watkins Arnold, a 1927 playlet for children, published The Tooth Fairy, an eight-page playlet for children. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "proved" his assertion that fairies and gnomes are true and "verified" with photos of two young girls surrounded by fairies in the same year. The world was ripe with imagination and poised to have a tooth fairy to come collect the missing teeth of little boys and girls and leave a coin or two behind.
