A seven-year-old Scots girl has become the first child in the UK to have stem cells banked using her baby teeth – extracted by her dentist father.
A seven-year-old Scots girl has become the first child in the UK to have stem cells banked using her baby teeth – extracted by her dentist father.
STILL SMILING: Becca Graham is the UK's first child to have her stem cells banked from her teeth, after her dentist father removed them in his Glasgow surgery. Picture: PA
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Becca Graham's parents Callum and Heather decided to freeze and store their daughter's milk teeth so the youngster can take advantage of future medical advances in stem cell research.
Stem cells from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood have been used for decades to treat leukaemia and other blood-related diseases.
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