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stem cells from teeth

cm74

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We just stored our sons stem cells from one of his milk teeth with Bioeden. Our nurse told us about them and a recent study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21335539 showing teeth cells could be used to treat diabetes one day. We had never heard of them but they have labs here and in the US. They send you a collection kit you just send a tooth when it falls out. Fingers crossed.
 
The various articles seem to say that any dental pulp is a good source of stem cells. Guess I will have a tooth out if necessary.

Regards

Doug
 
cm74,

I'm a little concerned when I hear "They send you a collection kit you just send a tooth when it falls out"
When the tooth falls out, most of the dental pulp (the stuff full of stem cells) has been re-absorbed and the tooth is to all intents and purposes useless. That's not to say you "might" have some viable cells in there but I hope you get a full report from Bioeden that specifies you have actually stored stem cells.

You should aim to have the tooth pulled before it falls out by itself.

For full disclosure, I work for Store-A-Tooth http://www.store-a-tooth.com and they use the only FDA approved tooth transport device, a critical component since the dental pulp starts degrading once it is removed.

Store-A-Tooth does service the UK and we have a section dedicated to Diabetes here:
http://www.store-a-tooth.com/diseases/diabetes

Here's a recent news update about a potential breakthrough in using stem cells to cure diabetes:
http://technorati.com/lifestyle/article/breakthrough-in-diabetes-treatment/

I hope at least some of this info helps...
 
Too late for me I threw the tooth away!
 
Bioeden have a patented process for extracting the cells and they say they will repeat the process for free if there are not enough cells present. It worked first time for us and we got a success report when they stored the cells. They are regulated by the HTA here in the UK and are registered with the FDA in the US - we received the collection kit in plenty of time and are very happy with the service.
 
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