Children are receiving less cash from Tooth Fairy as cost-of-living crisis bites

CHILDREN are extracting less cash from the Tooth Fairy as the cost of living crisis bites, a survey has found.

On average, £1.90 is being left for each tooth, ten per cent down from £2.10 five years ago.

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The highest amounts are left in the capital, with an average of £2.30 a tooth, rising to a £5 average in Kensington, West London.

Tooth Fairy payments are lowest in Newcastle and the North East, averaging just 90p a time.

Across the UK, nearly one in ten children are left £10 — amounting to £200 in total for a full set of all 20 baby teeth.

The poll found 27 per cent of children get a £1 coin for each lost tooth, 25 per cent get a £2 coin, and 14 per cent get less than £1, typically 50p.

A further 12 per cent get £5 and two per cent more than £20.

But eight per cent never get a visit.

The poll of 5,000 parents by the Dental Phobia website found more than 90 per cent under-fives believe in the fairy.

Dentist Rhona Eskander said: “The Tooth Fairy is feeling the pinch like the rest of us.

“The Tooth Fairy is still coming out almost every time a child loses a tooth. It is just they are leaving a little less money.”

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