Milk teeth stem cells help treat chronic diseases
ALLAHABAD – Stem cells, which have the potential to protect from life threatening diseases, can be ‘locked’ within your family teeth. Now, dentists have introduced process to send milk teeth to Mumbai-based labs to harvest milk teeth for future use of stem cells.
Dentists claim that though only two samples have been collected by the Mumbai-based lab from the city but there has been a steep rise in the queries being raised by parents about the facility in the past three to four months.
With the discovery of stem cells in milk teeth, dentists claim that an accessible and available source of stem cells has been identified. A child’s stem cells can be preserved from the milk teeth and can even be collected from impacted third molars till the age of 22.
Source: The Times of India
Published: 19 July 2014
Category: Features, Technology & Devices
