February, 2011

In celebration of National Children’s Dental Health Month, we commend all of our Providers who recognize the importance of raising awareness among patients and their families of the critical role that proper dental care plays in the overall health of children.

As StemSave Providers, you have chosen to enhance your practice and expand your care by providing patients with the opportunity to recover and bank their own dental stem cells for possible future use in personalized and regenerative medicine. Be sure to tell all your patients and their families about this unique opportunity for all procedures involving routine extractions of healthy teeth. Read further to see how one of your colleagues has incorporated StemSave into her practice.

This year, we applaud

Dr. Deborah Pilla

and

Park Avenue Pediatric Dentistry

for their commitment to Community Education.

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Dr. Deborah Pilla has been making children smile since 1981. She earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at SUNY at Buffalo and completed her pediatric dental residency at Montefiore Medical Center. She also completed a pediatric dental fellowship at Columbia University and earned a New York State certification in dental sedation. Dr. Pilla opened Park Avenue Pediatric Dentistry in New York’s Upper East Side in 1992.

Dr. Pilla is a member of the American Dental Association, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, American Association of Women Dentists and the New York Society of Dentistry for Children. She is affiliated with Lenox Hill Hospital.

In her spare time, Dr. Pilla volunteers with the Little Baby Face Foundation on the Medical Board. She has two sons, and enjoys traveling and knitting.

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Some examples of how Park Avenue Pediatric Dentistry supports National Children’s Dental Health Month:

"We at Park Avenue Pediatric Dentistry dedicate time for visiting local schools, children ages 2 – 6, with the intention of instilling good dental habits. We teach them the difference between healthy and unhealthy snacks, the proper way to brush and floss, how many teeth they have as children and how many they will have as adults. The children are very excited during our presentation and especially at the end when they receive their “goodie bags” which contain an age appropriate toothbrush, children’s toothpaste, flossers, stickers, a coloring book, and a brochure for their parents explaining our demonstration. We have done this for four years and the schools gladly invite us back every year."

"A recent addition to our goodie bags is information about a wonderful service we offer called StemSave. Whenever a patient has a tooth that needs to be "wiggled out", we receive a treatment letter from a referring orthodontist or we see a double row of teeth (two teeth in the same location), we always let the patient's parents know about StemSave. After we introduce StemSave and explain the unique opportunity they have, we give the parent the phone and StemSave takes care of the rest! Parents love hearing about it, especially those who were unable to save the cord blood at the time of their child's birth. We love educating our patients and their parents!"

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Dr. Pilla distributes the following handouts to patients and families during office visits for education on:

¨ Smart snacks and those to avoid

¨ Sugar content in drinks and cereals

¨ Calcium food sources

¨ Fluoridated water guidelines

¨ Thumb, finger and pacifier habits

For more information on optimal oral care and the Program Planning Guide for National Children’s Dental Health Month, visit the comprehensive American Dental Association web site: www.ada.org

As a StemSave Provider, you are part of the largest, fastest-growing stem cell banking network dedicated to providing your patients with the opportunity to recover and bank their own powerful and unique stem cells for future use in personalized and regenerative medicine.

We thank you for partnering with us to continue your vital role in the future overall health of your patients.