Tooth Fairy blamed for tooth found in ear after 3 years

Add putting your teeth under your pillow for the Tooth Fairy to that list of incredibly dangerous things we used to do all the time. The well-meaning, cash-delivering Tooth Fairy is under attack from the British Medical Journal for furtively slipping a lost tooth into an eight-year-old boy's ear. OK, they're kind of joking, but they're dead serious about the threat of stray teeth getting lodged in orifices. The wayward tooth was discovered on an X-ray three years later when the kid was suffering from an unrelenting runny nose. Buzz-killing dentists are now advising children to put their income-generating pearly whites into an envelope or container before sliding them under their pillows. Good grief, is nothing sacred? [Source]

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