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General Anesthesia – Safe or Not for Your Child’s Brain?

Researchers believe that it is very important to present and understand the possible long term neurological effects that anesthesia has on the brain of children. Several studies that have been performed on animals show that in young children and neonates, anesthetic drugs can have a negative effect on the cognitive development of the child.

Adult Stem Cells from Teeth Could Heal Stroke Damaged Brains

Dental pulp stem cells are highly promising as precursors of replacement neurons (brain cells) because they are easily accessible, can be taken from the patient needing treatment, and they have similar properties to cranial neural crest cells that normally make brain cells and other cranial tissues.