Tooth Fairy Time

My baby lost a tooth yesterday. At five years and one month it seems a tad young. It's also a lower incisor and we're sure the top ones are meant to drop out first. Looby Loo's had so many bumps and bangs this week tho'--a bang on the head on Monday necessitating a note from school, falling off the tag-along on Thursday when she and M skidded on a patch of ice--that it could have recieved a knock: she doesn't remember and didn't mention a sore mouth at any time. But when I picked her up from school yesterday, she said her tooth was loose. So I told her to leave it alone (fat chance of that!) and tried to work out what to do about it. It came out in her noodles at supper time without fuss: we didn't even immediately notice what the "bit" she had found actaully was. It looks like the entire tooth; her gum's not sore; she's not upset. Bearing in mind the way her milk teeth are crammed in, it might be blessing. There'll be more space for the permanent ones to grow in without early dental intervention.

We tried to work out what the tooth fairy should give her (a gum shield sprang to mind) and decided that if we got 5 (new) pence twenty-one years* ago, then a 50p piece didn't seem unreasonable now. Anyone actually know what the going rate for teeth is, these days?

* Edit: wishful thing that: it was, in reality, thirty-one years.