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From teaching healthy eating habits to instilling strong values, you already do so much to prepare your child for a happy and healthy life. Banking stem cells may not be as obvious as saving for college, but it could mean just as much to your child’s future well-being and quality of life.
This exploding field of research holds the promise that your child, utilizing a toolkit of their own stem cells, will live a life of unprecedented wellness.
Banking today means your child has the potential to benefit from the advanced therapies of tomorrow.
Teeth are a great source of stem cells for banking. The most obvious reason is that it’s easy to collect a baby tooth that’s naturally falling out or a wisdom tooth being extracted.
More importantly, the dental pulp in your child’s baby and wisdom teeth is an excellent source of mesenchymal stem cells.
These teeth are going to come out, so why discard them when you can bank them?
Banking is a decision you make before your child’s teeth come out. Once the teeth are out, your dentist will use our Tooth Transport Kit to safely and securely send them to our laboratory, where the stem cells inside will be processed. From there, the stem cells are frozen and stored in our cryopreservation facility, where they will be maintained until needed.
You can feel confident that the powerful potential of your child’s stem cells is safe and secure.
- Tooth Collection: We partner with your dentist to collect the teeth. The deciduous [milky] tooth is extracted by your dentist.
- Transport: We provide for overnight shipping to our lab, directly from your dentist, in a temperature-controlled Tooth Transport Kit. In use worldwide for over 20 years, the main component in the Tooth Transport Kit helps protect the dental pulp in your child’s teeth during transport to our lab.
- Stem Cell Processing: Prior to freezing, stem cells are extracted from the dental pulp and grown in culture. We conduct a total cell count and then confirm the presence of the expected stem cells using flow cytometry. We also preserve a portion of the dental pulp in its original state.
- Confirmation: We send you a report detailing exactly what is present in the samples we are banking for you.
- Cryopreservation: Your sample is carefully cooled to a permanent storage temperature of less than -150° C (-240° F) in a vapor-phase liquid nitrogen cryopreservation vault. We use the latest cryopreservation (freezer) technology and maintain your samples in a gated storage facility with 24-hour security.
- Usage: If your child needs to access their stem cells, contact us and we will safely prepare and transport the cells to the clinic where the therapy will occur.
