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Dental Stem Cells

In 2000, scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discovered that potent stem cells are found in both baby teeth and wisdom teeth, providing a new, convenient and plentiful source of stem cells.

Stem cells are the body's "master" cells that regenerate the body's many cells, tissues, and organs. Most cells in your body can only make new cells of the same type - blood cells make blood cells, skin cells make more skins cells and so on.

Stem cells are unique not only because they can turn into many different types of cells - a stem cell might create blood, kidney, heart, or bone for example - but also because they can divide many more times than other cells.

There are two broad types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells.

While there has been much debate on the ethical issues surrounding the use of embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells are free of this controversy and only adult stem cells, to date, have been used to treat people.

The most commonly known source of adult stem cells is bone marrow, which contains both hematopoietic stem cells (also found in cord blood) and mesenchymal stem cells (also found in teeth).