Tigard City Dental

07/21/2025

July 21st is National Junk Food Day! What’s your “go to” for a junk food treat?

07/07/2025

Did you know that today is World Chocolate Day? What is your favorite chocolate treat?

06/19/2025

02/27/2025

Please share! Today at 1:30pm these 2 ladies, both wearing masks, walked in to our dental office under the ruse of the one lady wanting to schedule a new patient appointment. She gave a name of Amber Smith. While she was scheduling with me, the older lady with her slowly walked away from the front desk and made her way to our break room and very quickly and quietly stole an employees wallet from her purse that was in a locker. Another employee found her in the break room, she said she was looking for hand sanitizer and she was escorted to the front office and they left before we even knew anything was missing. By 4 pm, they had made several charges on her credit cards. So awful!

02/20/2025

Does this look familiar to anyone? Found in a seat cushion

11/27/2024

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁

10/31/2024

Have a safe and happy Halloween 🎃

02/28/2024

Today is National Tooth Fairy Day! The tooth fairy myth in the United States took the form of the story we tell today in the early 1900s. The tooth fairy is based on European myths and other traditions.

Europeans from before the Middle Ages were actually very concerned about the correct disposal of primary teeth. The belief was if a witch got a hold of a tooth (or fingernail clippings and hair) the witch could curse a child. So centuries ago it was a common practice to bury a child’s primary tooth in the ground when it fell out. This would prevent a curse and was done so that a permanent tooth would grow in its place. As people migrated to the States and began to live in cities where a yard wasn't always available to bury a tooth, flower pots were used. Eventually, this led to the tooth being “buried” under the child’s pillow.

But where did the money part come from? In the Middle Ages, from what is now Scandinavia, the Vikings paid children for a lost tooth a tann-fé (tooth fee). The teeth were, in turn, worn on a necklace for good luck in battle. The idea of exchanging a tooth for coins advanced throughout Europe, though it did not yet involve a fairy. The fairy probably came from English literature.

The 1927 play by Esther Watkins Arnold and the 1949 book by Lee Rogo, both called “The Tooth Fairy,” give the myth a permanent place alongside Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

From burying teeth to avoid curses to The Rise of the Guardians, the tooth fairy has come a long way!