Dr. Purva Merchant has been answering letters from gaptoothed children and their parents. “Happy growing up,” she typically replies.

Lena Larmon, 6, lost her tooth on a United Airlines flight that traveled from New York to South Carolina. The flight's captain eased her loss when he wrote a letter to the tooth fairy.

A dad hatched an ingenious plan to teach his daughter a lesson about keeping her room tidy, via a letter sent by the "Tooth Fairy." The note said that several attempts had been made to retrieve ...

Five-year-old Kaisley Blake had big plans for her first-ever loose tooth – and they involved a pillow, not a swallow, according to her dad.

Leigh's letter said: "Dear Mrs Tooth Fairy, my lower tooth has fallen out and I would like £2 ($2.6) please because I didn't receive anything for my top teeth that the hospital had to remove due ...

The tooth fairy left you a letter,” an excited Grace says to her unimpressed daughter. Not sure how to respond, Mel looks skeptically at her mother before shifting her gaze toward the letter.

A kindergartener accidentally swallowed a tooth – so her principal wrote the tooth fairy a special letter ...

He opened her backpack to find the principal’s note, which read in part, “please accept this letter as official verification of a lost tooth and provide the standard monetary exchange rate you ...