Keep your child's milk teeth, as it may be a cure for some diseases in the future
Keep your child's milk teeth, as it may be a cure for some diseases in the future
Usually when a child's baby teeth fall out, the child puts them under his pillow to give him the Tooth Fairy as gifts, and then the parents keep them as souvenirs or get rid of them.
But keeping those milk teeth may be a cure for your child in the future.
According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the United States, stem cells can be used to treat serious diseases such as cancer or diabetes, which may affect a child later in life.
These cells can also help grow new eye tissue and bone, even XNUMX years after the baby teeth have fallen out.
Extracting stem cells from the bone marrow can be a very painful procedure, but since the tooth that was extracted from the child's mouth still retains these cells, this means that the cells can be easily obtained from the tooth and used for treatment rather than undergoing this painful process.
Thus, a child who develops cancer before he reaches the age of ten, can undergo treatment with stem cells extracted from his age.
Because milk teeth are not used for many years before they fall out, they are often still in good shape.
Stem cells are known to be able to transform into any cell in the body, which means that scientists can use them to fight disease.