How much should the tooth fairy leave? It's an eternal struggle of parenting, but it's also an overlooked economic indicator. For the past two decades, the price of a tooth has been going up much faster than you'd expect with inflation.
/PRNewswire/ Here is one group of American consumers who won t mind the recent inflation surges: Youngsters who lose a tooth. The Tooth Fairy in 2022 hides.
/PRNewswire/ Here is one group of American consumers who won t mind the recent inflation surges: Youngsters who lose a tooth. The Tooth Fairy in 2022 hides.
Mar 2, 2021
I guess the Tooth Fairy s finances haven t been hit too hard by the pandemic. Payouts just hit an all-time HIGH.
Delta Dental s 23rd annual Tooth Fairy Poll just came out. And they found the national average is now $4.70 per tooth.
That s up 67 cents from
last year, and four cents higher than the old record from 2017.
Kids in the Northeast get the biggest payouts at $5.72 per tooth. Kids out West are next at $5.54, then the South at $4.45 and the Midwest is lower at just $3.66 a tooth.
The survey s been done every year since 1998, when the average price per tooth was just $1.30.