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There's actually a related old wives' tale that one can't read until one has lost all of one's incisors, which certainly didn't pan out with us!

On top of just generally being late on the tooth fairy end, it turns out DS just doesn't have two of his adult incisors, so there's an excellent chance he just won't lose those two baby teeth at all. *** So if we were waiting on incisors before reading... well it could be a long time!