Other traditions are associated with mice or other rodents because of their sharp, everlasting teeth. The character Ratón Pérez appears in the tale of The Vain Little Mouse. A Ratoncito Pérez was used by Colgate in marketing toothpaste in Venezuela and Spain. In Italy, the Tooth Fairy ("Fatina") is also often replaced by a small mouse ("topino"), or by Saint Apollonia, patron saint of tooth complaints. In France and in French-speaking Belgium, this character is called "la petite souris" ("The Little Mouse"). From parts of lowland Scotland comes a tradition similar to the fairy mouse: a white fairy rat who purchases the teeth with coins.