Dental pulp banking: What to do on the day

Dental pulp banking from milk teeth offers an easy and non-invasive second 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 dental pulp stem cell collection goes smoothly, here’s what you should know.

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We send your collection kit to your home once your child has a wobbly tooth

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Once the tooth falls out, place it in the specialist tooth collection kit, following the instructions

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Our medical courier will then collect the sample from your home and deliver it to our laboratory in Nottingham

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Run numerous tests on the tooth and isolate the cells from the dental pulp

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Proliferate the cells until a sufficient number of high quality cells are present, before dividing the cells into numerous vials

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Carry out further quality testing to ensure the sample is optimal for therapy

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Cryogenically freeze and store the cells in the vapour phase of liquid nitrogen for decades to come

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Should you ever need to use your sample, we’ll take care of everything and can ship it anywhere in the world, free of charge

Our Customer Care team are on hand for any questions that you may have

Frequently asked questions

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) found in dental pulp are currently present in over 1,000 studies worldwide. These trials have identified the benefits of dental stem cells for treating a range of illnesses such as muscular dystrophy, neurogenerative diseases and arthritis.

Why choose Future Health?

Once you’ve decided that dental pulp 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;