Medium star Patricia Arquette recently confessed to USA Today that she had a "human baby-teeth" necklace made from her 17-year-old son Enzo’s first set of teeth.
The Emmy winner admits that the necklace is not yet complete and says she’ll add her 3-year-old daughter Harlow‘s teeth when they begin to fall out.
Source: In Touch, Nov. 20, 2006, pg. 74
Interesting necklace…hmmm…:/
What I want to know is how in the world did she preserve her son’s baby teeth? I remember when I was a kid I’d attempted to “save” my baby teeth for awhile…but then after a few months or so, they’ed start to disentigrate or something.
- Autumn on
I don’t know about anyone else….but that is kind of creepy!!!
- Lauren22 on
Cool idea! I wonder how one would have that necklace made?
I’m saving my firstborns teeth – so far there are only three but I’d like to look into something like that!
- yogadaisy on
I still have my wisdom tooth from 4 years ago! Now I don’t feel so strange for it.
- rachel on
I agree with Autumn, I think it is kind of creepy.
- Tara on
ikkk, I don’t think I could knowingly wear a bunch of teeth around my neck. I don’t care if it is my kids’ teeth or not. ugh.
- Entertainus News on
This is actually not that strange. Where my family is from (Spain) it is common to take the first baby tooth you lose and make it into a ring (looks like a little stone) or pendant. I never really thought about how weird it sounded until I just typed that. 
- Teba, CBB Reviews Editor on
ugh. that is just gross…
- ang on
Ewwwww!! LOL
- Doreen on
Rachel, it’s one thing to save your teeth; it’s quite another to wear them around your neck! I agree with everyone who has said this goes beyond preserving childrens’ first teeth (preferably in a nice keepsake box) and/or locks of hair. This is just creepy!
- Lauren on
I have my sons, Gino & Enzo’s teeth as well as all the letters my kids wrote to the tooth fairy. I think it’s pretty cool to have a necklace made out of the teeth. I’ve always told them that that’s why the tooth fairy wants them! BTW-They don’t disintegrate. I have them all in a keepsake box and the oldest ones are 8-9 years old.
- Guidomom on
gross
- Carol Lee on
Precious keepsakes… I’m a momma to Jacob Aaron 21, Alexandria Eevin 20, and Gabrielle Sophia 8….. those teeth are like “gold” to me!! (in terms of my keepsakes).
- Campbell on
Gross!!! LOL
I find wearing a ‘human tooth’ necklace macabre, similar to wearing a vile of someone’s blood around the neck.
- Heavenly_hibiscus on
Well people dont make necklace with shark teeth, elefant theef, etc. why not human theef that you know exactly how they come to be.. I particularly would find more interesting things to save from my kids, but I dont think particularly more gross.
- milie on
I find that more than a little strange. My daughter is 10 months old and even when she loses her first teeth I think the most I intend to do is save the first in the archival box we’ve got and from there on, the others will hit the trash. It may be fine for some, just not for me
- Morgan Brown on
Well, I guess if you’re going to save them for that long, you might as well do something with them, right? I don’t know that I would have thought of that, but it’s an idea, that’s for sure.
- LauraAS1 on
Wow.
I used to think it was creepy that my mom kept our baby teeth (and my umbilical cord stump!), joking that I thought only serial killers collected teeth.
We have little keepsake boxes for First Tooth and First Lock (of hair) but a necklace is taking it too far for me.
tell me how you cleaned the baby teeth after they fell out to save them. I had 7 children, and saved all their teeth and want to make a necklace also.thanks!
- patty green on
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