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page to your friends and colleagues. Every year four million
baby teeth fall out, and 1.4 million wisdom teeth are pulled out
of our collective mouth. Until recently, the only entity really
interested in all those teeth was the tooth fairy. But all that
changed in the year 2000, with the discovery that dental pulp
contains adult stem cells. In the not-too-distant future, those
stem cells might be used for growing new islet cells to cure
diabetes. The problem is, how to keep the teeth nice and fresh
until that hoped-for day. That's where Provia Laboratories comes
in, with their Store-A-Tooth service. Peter Verlander, PhD, the
chief scientific officer of Provia, says, "Essentially, any
healthy tooth is a candidate for banking. Researchers have been
able to recover s