Tuesday is National Tooth Fairy Day...

Tuesday is National Tooth Fairy Day, and the Chicago Sun-Times is marking it with drawings from the Tooth Fairy's clients from all through the area.

The adventure raises a question: What exactly is the Tooth Fairy leaving in exchange for teeth nowadays?

Based forward the response from readers, the fairy's offerings be attentive to to vary a bit. We're not abiding why, but perhaps it has to do with distance traveled, size or location of tooth, inflation, etc

In the Holt household in Western Springs, the fairy strike one as beings to make a tooth-by-tooth decision.

"In our household she brings $1 for the smaller teeth and $2 for molars. We assume it's because molars are more traumatic and take longer to wiggle on the outside but that is just a guess" says Stephanie Holt whose daughter Bria, 8 sent in a drawing showing the Tooth Fairy as a smiling, red-winged beauty with a glowing wand.

individual company makes a habit on the outside of finding what the Tooth Fairy note carefullys to leave. The company, Securian Dental, does a observe each year to determine the going rate.

This year's examine showed that U.S. children receive an average gift of $2 by tooth from the Tooth Fairy. That's up 22 cent from last year.

thus what does the Tooth Fairy direct the eye like?

We asked readers -- especially the fortunate ones who have caught a peek at the fairy -- to impel us a drawing.

Readers accorded in force, sending in centurys of sketches, drawings and paintings. We couldn't print them all here because of space constraints. These are near of the best that we saw.

We did have knowledge of to post as many of the drawings as we could onward our Web site -- www.suntimes .com/toothfairy. a certain number of however, arrived a bit too late to make it in. Sorry!

Thanks for the drawings!

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