Please, Mommy, just let me have a gold tooth!

[hakeber]

You should never ever brush my teeth again, mommy! Now I'll never have a gold tooth! Hurumph! (complete with crossed arms and stomping away)



I love his new friendship, but I wish she kept her gold tooth to herself.



I want a gold tooth like Hannah!!!!!

Well darling, when you are grown and live on your own you are welcome to let your teeth rot out of your head and have them replaced with gold teeth, but not on my watch and not on my dime.

I mean have you ever heard more ridiculous request?

[tbone_kneegrabber]

I am missing two adult teeth (congential birth "defect") and I wanted (still want) a silver tooth to replace one of them. My orthodonist wouldn't let me, even though my *mom* thought it was a great idea. My orthodonist seemed to think I wouldn't continue wanting a silver tooth into adulthood (he was wrong!)

Also you can reassure her that she could get a gold cap over a healthy tooth if she chose when she was older. No reason to have the pain of tooth decay for fashion, you can just have the fashion!!!

(and I have a friend who needed some MAJOR tooth work done and now has gold teeth, and yeah it's pretty cool and I would totally rock some gold teeth!!!)

[spughy]

Give her a gold tooth.

Go to a good cake-decorating or catering supply store, and ask if they have any food-grade gold leaf. If you can buy a small enough box of it so it doesn't cost loads and leave you with gold leaf you have no use for, get some, and apply it to your DD's tooth - it'll probably stick on with just water, or you could use egg white or something. Should last long enough for her to get a kick out of it.

[meemee]

well guess what? its a perfect opening line for a talk on dental care and tooth decay.

just sit and matter of factly go over what happens with tooth decay - telling the truth without making it scary. and then ask him if he still wants his gold tooth because you will then work towards getting him one. 'well so if you dont brush your teeth, you might get XXX and XXX and XXX. or even a gold tooth. if you are ok with getting XXX then that's fine. i will stop brushing your teeth. but what happens when you get XXX and not a gold tooth?'

i have done this with my dd since the very beginning. never ever said no or acted upset. i left the decision upto her and she decided when she got to know the whole bit. she always usually changed her mind.

always, always worked like a charm with dd.

ds thinks no brushing teeth = gold tooth. perfectly reasonable from what hannah has said. but you need to teach him everything else that could happen. he is plenty old to understand.

[mizzoh]

haha. my ds recently told me he didn't want to brush his teeth because he wanted to have green teeth like pirates do

i gave him green teeth using food coloring. i like PP's suggestion of going to the cake store!

[ErinYay]

While I would rather cut my own arm off than go this route, maybe reward good dental hygiene, say, proper brushing etc for a month, with a pair of these? (If I did do this, I'd remove the packaging first, as it reinforces some racial and cultural stereotypes that I'd rather not expose my kids to.)

[hakeber]

...some good ideas here. I should have known you loving mamas would come up with some way for this to work.

My inner voices of reason just go "uhhhh, no, no I will not let you stop brushing your teeth. No." without really listening to the request is not to have rotten teeth but to have a gold tooth...pay attention, mom!

Originally Posted by spughy

Give her a gold tooth.

Go to a good cake-decorating or catering supply store, and ask if they have any food-grade gold leaf. If you can buy a small enough box of it so it doesn't cost loads and leave you with gold leaf you have no use for, get some, and apply it to your DD's tooth - it'll probably stick on with just water, or you could use egg white or something. Should last long enough for her to get a kick out of it.

Love this idea!

Originally Posted by mizzoh

haha. my ds recently told me he didn't want to brush his teeth because he wanted to have green teeth like pirates do

i gave him green teeth using food coloring. i like PP's suggestion of going to the cake store!

That is pretty much the gist. He saw my gold tooth and DH's and he thought, that's cool but obviously something only grown ups get when they don't brush their teeth, then his playmate got one and he was like "What the what?! Kids can have them too?! AWESOMESAUCE! I want one, nows."

And I all I hear is the request to stop brushing his teeth. I love how creative you guys are being!

Originally Posted by ErinYay

While I would rather cut my own arm off than go this route, maybe reward good dental hygiene, say, proper brushing etc for a month, with a pair of these? (If I did do this, I'd remove the packaging first, as it reinforces some racial and cultural stereotypes that I'd rather not expose my kids to.)

Ahhhh, that's just so wrong...and in what way would these be "great for dance recitals, [and] school functions..." ?!

I can just see the look on my MIL's face when I send Benjamin to his Kindergarten Graduation picture session with a Rap Grillz in his mouth. Oh no, no, no...so wrong on so many levels.

But maybe he can get them for halloween as part of a pirate costume or something...too weird for words!

I just showed DS and he said "Yes! That's not cool mommy, that's INCREDIBLE!"

[Oubliette8]

Originally Posted by meemee

well guess what? its a perfect opening line for a talk on dental care and tooth decay.

just sit and matter of factly go over what happens with tooth decay - telling the truth without making it scary. and then ask him if he still wants his gold tooth because you will then work towards getting him one. 'well so if you dont brush your teeth, you might get XXX and XXX and XXX. or even a gold tooth. if you are ok with getting XXX then that's fine. i will stop brushing your teeth. but what happens when you get XXX and not a gold tooth?'

ds thinks no brushing teeth = gold tooth. perfectly reasonable from what hannah has said. but you need to teach him everything else that could happen. he is plenty old to understand.

This. My mother and some of my friends had glasses when I was little. I REALLY wanted glasses too. i thought it was pretty unfair my parents wouldn't get me some. But I didn't realize all the other stuff, like wearing glasses is a pain in the butt, and means you cant see real well without them etc. I would talk to him about the pros and cons. Gold teeth are fun to pretend about, but not so much fun to have.

[One_Girl]

My dd did this and we talked about why we brush teeth, the pain of cavities and tooth decay, and how much it hurts to get a tooth pulled. She still wanted one though and didnt stop wanting one until I told her we couldn't afford one even if her tooth did rot so she would just have to have a gap there that wouldn't grow back. I also pointed out that if you don't brush you get stinky breathe. She thought that both choices were disgusting and decided to continue to brush.

[Purple*Lotus]

When I had to have a crown on one of my bath teeth, my dentist said that gold was the best option. I reluctantly went with it. It is funny now, to me, though, because my students ask to see it all the time and I have overheard the following conversation about me:
Student A: Miss J has a gold tooth!
Student B: Yeah, just like a pirate!