Tooth stem cell banking offers an easy and non-invasive chance to preserve your child’s stem cells. If your child has a wobbly milk tooth, Future Health Biobank manages the collection and storage process for you from the day it falls out.
To ensure that your child’s tooth stem cell collection goes smoothly, here’s what you should know.
Once you have signed up for our tooth stem cell banking service, we will send a sample collection kit to your address. This will contain the instructions and packaging materials required for your child’s milk tooth. Simply dissolve the preservation tablet in the tooth solution container, shake it, then place the milk tooth in the container.
Contact Future Health Biobank once completing step one. Our dedicated couriers are available to collect your sample kit and transport it to our UK laboratory. Once your milk tooth sample has arrived at the lab, the sample will be viability tested and processed. This can take up to 21 days.
Once your milk tooth sample has been processed, we will notify you of your results. Successfully processed samples will have the stem cells isolated and cryogenically frozen/stored at our secure storage facilities.
If your child’s milk teeth are close to falling out, the first step is to order a collection kit from Future Health Biobank. This can be kept at home ready for when the tooth falls out. Click here to order your child’s tooth collection kit.
Whilst any tooth has the potential to be used, ideally we would recommend sending any of the anterior deciduous teeth. These are the 12 teeth in the front, 6 on top and 6 on bottom.
Future Health biobank has successfully isolated stem cells from both adult teeth and milk teeth. Teeth removed for orthodontic purposes as well as wisdom teeth extractions can be sent for processing, providing they are 100% healthy.
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) like those found in in dental pulp feature in over 1,000 studies worldwide. These trials have identified the benefits of dental stem cells for a range of illnesses such as muscular dystrophy, neurogenerative diseases and arthritis.
Once you’ve decided that tooth stem cell banking is for you, you then need to decide which biobank you’re going to trust with your child's sample. Here's why we think you should choose us;
