BANGALORE: STEMADE Biotech has come up with the concept of dental stem cell banking in the city.
It involves extracting stem cells from wisdom and primary teeth, and having them carefully preserved in special cryogenic storage facilities, which has the potential to protect humans from future health concerns.
Shailesh Gadre, managing director, Stemade Biotech, says: "We have come up with six smile banks in the city and dentists can get in touch with clinics."
"Prior to Bangalore, the concept was launched in Mumbai, Delhi and Pune.
Dental pulp stem cells can be obtained from the milk tooth of children before they fall off. Alternatively, if the dentist advises wisdom tooth extraction, then one can get his own stem cell stored from it. After this they are carefully preserved in cryogenic storage facilities," Gadre added.
He explained, "These stem cells have proved to be highly regenerative, bearing the capacity to be transformed into many different types of precursor cells of the solid connective tissues of the body. The entire process is simple, painless and quick, and requires barely a 1520 minute sitting at the dental clinic."
The stem cell banking is gaining popularity in view of its affordability, easy extraction, awareness among parents to safeguard their child's health and the emphasis in modern medical research towards therapies from regenerative tissues.