They wait excitedly for the tooth fairy to\u200c arrive\u2062 and take their baby<\/p>\n
tooth, leaving a few coins or bills behind. While many parents keep their kids\u2019 first\u200b lost tooth, we usually toss out the others that come after.<\/p>\n
If your children are still little, you might want to save all of their<\/p>\n
lost baby teeth. Scientists and doctors are \u200burging parents to keep these teeth, and the reasons may surprise you.<\/p>\n
It turns out there are lots of stem cells in\u2063 those teeth that could help save their lives later on.<\/p>\n
Image for illustrative purpose only.<\/p>\n
Stem cells can be \u2064used to treat illnesses like Parkinson\u2019s disease,<\/p>\n
Alzheimer\u2019s disease and \u2062some types of canc3r.<\/p>\n
Many \u2064people who get these diagnoses often have to wait a long time for\u200c a\u200c matching bone marrow donor.<\/p>\n
But if your child is ever diagnosed with one \u2063of these conditions and you\u2019ve<\/p>\n
saved their baby teeth, the stem cells inside can be \u200dused in treatment so they won\u2019t\u200d need to wait for someone else.<\/p>\n
Image for illustrative purpose only.<\/p>\n
If they need any teeth removed (like wisdom teeth),<\/p>\n
those can also be useful later on so discuss saving them with your \u2064child\u2019s\u200c dentist.<\/p>\n
No parent wants\u2064 to think about the scary idea of their child getting a serious illness.<\/p>\n
But by taking actions like keeping\u200d their baby teeth safe it could really \u2062help with treatment down the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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