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jleung1205 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:52:21 +0000

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Banking Stem Cells Found in Teeth

jleung1205 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:23:48 +0000

Stem cells found in teeth can be recovered during routine dental procedures and banked for use in stem cell treatments. Stem cells are being studied to treat diseases like diabetes, Parkinson’s, alzheimer’s, arthritis, cancer……

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Google Director S.Christopher Theodoros Joins StemSave Senior Management Team

jleung1205 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:20:50 +0000

Chris Theodoros, an innovator and leader in the digital marketing arena has joined StemSave, a market leader in stem cell recovery and banking. Chris brings a level of expertise and insight from growing early stage companies and will help lead StemSave’s growth during these exciting times as advances in stem cell and regenerative therapies progress rapidly. …

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StemSave CEO Art Greco and Dr. Darby Speak at WTOC Morning Talk Show in Savannah

jleung1205 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:16:25 +0000

Stem Save CEO Art Greco and Dr. Darby of Atlanta discuss an affordable, non-invasive and innovative stem cell banking service where anyone with access to a dentist has the ability to procure their own stem cells for use in future regenerative stem cell treatments.

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Stem Cells From Baby Teeth are Banked Using StemSave Service

jleung1205 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:14:06 +0000

Dr. Molly Gunsaulis, a pioneering pediatric dentist in Spokane Valley, to offer StemSave’s stem cell banking service. Gunsaulis says, “I like to offer my patients everything within my practice to ensure their overall health,” she says. “If it’s good for my patients, it’s good for my practice; that’s my motto. Stem cell therapies show very promising advances in the treatment of diabetes, heart disease, leukemia, brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Crohn’s disease, and periodontal disease.

Spokane Valley pediatric dentist Dr. Molly Gunsaulis, along with other dentists here, has begun offering the families of her young patients an intriguing new purpose for extracted baby teeth—a possible role in saving the child’s life in the future.Gunsaulis says she has begun offering families the opportunity to have such teeth sent to an East Coast lab, where the stem cells in them can be removed from the teeth and cryogenically preserved for future use. Healthy stem cells are known for their value in regenerating tissue and fighting disease.

Gunsaulis says she was the first pediatric dentist here to offer parents the option of having their children’s’ extracted teeth sent to the lab to preserve the stem cells, but pediatric dentist Dr. Jared Evans, in Spokane Valley, also is offering the service now, as are Dr. Mark Paxton, of Spokane Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, and Dr. Brandy Richey, a South Hill general dentist. Gunsaulis says Richey was the first dentist of any kind here to offer the service. Attempts to reach Richey were not successful.

The service, is offered by New York-based StemSave Inc. That company charges families $590 upfront for enrollment and processing and $100 a year to store the frozen stem cells until they’re needed.

Baby teeth that simply fall out aren’t suitable for stem-cell extraction. Gunsaulis offers the service only when a tooth needs to be extracted for another reason, such as at the request of an orthodontist. The tooth is immediately placed in a special collection kit, which induces hypothermia in the tooth so stem cells will remain alive while it’s shipped to StemSave’s lab near Boston.

“I like to offer my patients everything within my practice to ensure their overall health,” she says. “If it’s good for my patients, it’s good for my practice; that’s my motto.”

Gunsaulis’ practice, Molly Gunsaulis D.D.S. Dentistry for Children, opened in November 2007 and is located at 15404 E. Springfield. It has roughly 2,000 patients, ranging in age from infants to 18.

She says baby teeth have the most accessible stem cells found in children. The cells are contained in the pulp of healthy teeth, she adds. The pulp is the soft tissue that contains nerves, blood vessels, and connective tissue, and it is within the tooth and extends from the crown of the tooth to the tip of the root in the bone of the jaws, the American Dental Association says.

Gunsaulis says, “Stem cell research has demonstrated very promising advances in the treatment of a wide variety of health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, leukemia, brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Crohn’s disease, and periodontal disease.”

Still, she says, “No one, myself included, knows for certain what the full possibilities are for the stem cells isolated from teeth, nor can I, or anyone for that matter, accurately predict if or when they’ll be used in clinical settings in the future, but I love having the option available for my discerning parents.”

“And the younger the stem cells are, the better,” he says. Newer stem cells, such as those from baby teeth, work faster as they regenerate tissue, he says. Stem cells age as people get older, so over time stem cells aren’t able to keep up with degradation of the body, he says.

The best time to recover baby teeth is before the teeth become very loose, as the cells in the dental pulp will remain more viable if they continue to have a blood supply, he says. That’s why if a tooth gets too loose or falls out, it’s not good for stem-cell use, Gunsaulis says.

“Parents appreciate having this new and cutting-edge service available to them for the first time,” she says. “Saving stem cells now gives families the opportunity to take advantage of new and future stem-cell technologies in a way not possible in the past.”

Most parents realize that their children will live to see medical treatments develop in their lifetimes that will extend and improve their lives, Gunsaulis says.

StemSave important to a brain cancer survivor

jleung1205 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:31:16 +0000

Megan Brown, survivor of brain cancer, selects StemSave to cryo-preserve and bank the stem cells found in her wisdom teeth….

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Stem Cells in Teeth Open New Possibilities for Dental Practices

jleung1205 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:21:35 +0000

The recent discovery of powerful stem cells in teeth provides an affordable and non-invasive method for individuals – both children and adults – to recover and bank their own valuable stem cells for use in future stem cell treatments. Dentists can now play a larger role in their patient’s overall health by teaming up with StemSave to help bank their dental stem cells.

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Stem Cells: What will they be when they grow out

jleung1205 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:19:02 +0000

Diane Brucato-Thomas writes about the advances in stem cell treatments and regenerative medical therapies in treating disease and trauma and using StemSave to bank stem cells from teeth…

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Your Child’s Teeth Can Save their Life using StemSave Service

jleung1205 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:59:33 +0000

Wait! Before you plan for the tooth fairy to come and take away your child’s tooth, consider preserving it for future use. Believe it or not, the human tooth contains healthy pulp tissue which contains stem cells that can be utilized to regenerate your child’s health if needed.

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Young Woman with Heart Disease Banks Stem Cells From Wisdom Teeth

jleung1205 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:42:11 +0000

Miriam Pensack, a 17 year old who has inherited hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle that can cause sudden death in athletes, utilizes StemSave to bank stem cells from her wisdom teeth.

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