The Benefits of Storing Dental Stem Cells

Preserving your children's own dental stem cells is simple, painless and convenient.

These stem cells are found in baby teeth that are naturally coming out and in wisdom teeth, or other healthy teeth, that are being extracted.

Instead of having your dentist discard these valuable stem cells, or putting them under the pillow for the Tooth Fairy - consider how dental stem cells could one day help protect your family's health.

Similar to stem cells from umbilical cord blood, dental stem cells have the potential to be used in many medical applications.

They have already been used to regenerate dental bone and treat periodontal disease, and are currently being studied by researchers to help treat conditions such as diabetes, spinal cord injury, stroke, heart attack, Muscular Dystrophy, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Dental Stem Cells - a new source of stem cells that are:

• Plentiful and painless to collect - found in baby teeth naturally falling out or extracted teeth such as wisdom teeth
• Affordable - the initial cost to store dental stem cells is about one third to one half the cost of storing umbilical cord blood
• Non-controversial - adult stem cells, not embryonic
• Precious - public banks don't exist for storing dental stem cells
• Autologous - a perfect match since they're your child's own stem cells (so no risk of immunologic rejection)
• Your child's dental stem cells may also match closely related relatives (siblings, parents, grandparents, uncles/aunts)