The Dentists Warn: Don’t Dispose A Baby Tooth! It Can Save Your Child’s Life!
There comes a time in a kid’s life when they have to lose their first tooth. Most of the time, their parents usually slip some money under the kids’ pillows so that they can celebrate this milestone in their life. There are also some people that keep the tooth for sentimental reasons, and some of them just throw it away.
Nevertheless, one study in 2003 discovered that baby teeth are a very rich source of stem cells, which are protocells that can be grown into different kinds of cells if needed.
Thus, if somewhere later in life, the child is to experience a health issue of some kind, the stem cells can be grown from the tooth to have the tissue. Therefore, if you keep the teeth of your child, you can treat several diseases. These stem cells can be kept for years time and they can grow any kind of tissue, like heart cells and even brain cells.
How to Preserve the Baby Tooth?
You need to bear something in mind if you decide to keep the first tooth of your child. The baby teeth need to be kept fresh because the stem cells can degrade and lose the potency with time. Thus, you can use a specialized company which will provide these types of services for you. The service is Store-A-Tooth. You can preserve your kid’s teeth this way. The company’s name is Provia Labs.
All you have to do is ship the freshly plucked tooth or teeth. Then, the lab will extract the soft tissue inside. When they do this, they will put it in a cryo-protective solution right away. This way they can freeze the tissue for further use. The dental pulp needs to have had a sufficient blood supply within a maximum of 48 hours of being frozen.
If the time is less, the cells will die. Also, the teeth are stores in a liquid nitrogen cryopreservation vault where the stem cells will remain intact and unusable for years. Thus, if your child has some kind of a condition and you need stem cells, these preserved ones can be very useful. They can even save the child’s life.
Therefore, next time, when you child loses a tooth, keep it. You might not know when you will need it!
Originally posted 2018-04-13 15:45:44.
