Provia Laboratories Store-A-Tooth service enables families to save their own adult stem cells—from baby teeth ready to fall out; teeth pulled for orthodontic reasons; and wisdom teeth being extracted. For those interested in the service, Provia works with the dental team to provide high-quality tooth collection, and arranges for the sample to be sent overnight to the lab, where the stem cells are harvested, tested, and cryopreserved for future potential use.
Dental stem cells have already been used successfully in people to regenerate alveolar jaw bone and to treat periodontal disease. In use by thousands of dentists for more than 20 years, the Save-A-Tooth is an FDA-approved and ADA-accepted device for transporting avulsed teeth for reimplantation.
