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Why should I use it?

Kids are active, dental injuries are bound to happen. Your school children depend on you to be prepared for everything. Thousands of teeth get knocked out every year. Being prepared can be the difference between saving a child’s teeth and losing them. The resulting stigma from missing teeth can be devastating in adolescent children developing their social skills. Kids have enough trouble learning without having to worry about how they look. Kids under the age of eighteen can’t get a permanent replacement! That means children must wear dentures, if anything at all.

What’s a good example?

Let’s say you get a call from the coach on your school’s sports team. A child just got broadsided by the opposing team’s best quarterback. You already know the procedure on handling knocked out teeth. You tell the coach not to handle the tooth by the root and not to rinse it or attempt to wipe off any debris. When the child gets to your office or you go to the field to assist, there will be one of two options. You can use milk or Save-A-Tooth®.

If you have a Save-A-Tooth® on hand, just grab it from your first aid kit, run down to the field, drop the tooth in, stop the bleeding in the gum cavity, then call the parents. Because the tooth is protected for 24 hours there is no need to rush to a dentist or the ER.

If you choose to use milk, it is vastly more complex. First you have to go to the refrigerator and check the expiration date to see if the milk is sour (sour milk kills teeth), if the milk is sour or there is no refrigerator or milk on hand, you will have to run to the cafeteria to get some. If the carton is too big you will have to find a container that won’t damage the teeth. By this time the tooth is already dying. After the tooth is in the container of milk you would treat the bleeding gum cavity and then call the parents or find a ride. This would be considerably more urgent as milk only protects a tooth for an hour. Milk is also incapable of regenerating tooth cells, and there is no assurance that the tooth will not get damaged inside a makeshift container. This means the chances of success after reimplantation are slim at best.

Why should I use it?

The athletic trainer is the often the first on the scene of a sport’s injury and your athlete’s depend on you to be prepared. Over 800,000 teeth get knocked out every year in the sports world. Being prepared can be the difference between saving the athlete’s teeth and losing them.

What’s a good example?

Let’s say you’re playing an away game. One of your athletes gets hit in the face and looses one or two teeth. Being a seasoned professional, you know not to touch the root or attempt to wash the tooth or remove debris. There is only a window of 15 minutes to get the tooth reimplanted or into a tooth preserving medium. You have two choices: milk or Save-A-Tooth®.

If you choose to use Save-A-Tooth® it’s as simple as accessing your medical field kit, unscrewing the top and dropping the tooth in. You can then treat the bleeding gum cavity and arrange a dental appointment or treat other critical injuries that may have happened simultaneously. You can even drop the Save-A-Tooth® in your bag as there is no risk of the tooth being damaged in transit.

If you choose milk it will be far more difficult to coordinate. First, you have to be prepared. That means keeping milk in a cooler. You’d have to put new milk in everyday. If you don’t have milk, you have to take time out from the game to go get some or find someone else who can go. If there are more serious injuries to attend to, there probably won’t be enough time to save the tooth. If you do have fresh milk on hand you will need to get someone to drive the patient to an emergency room immediately as milk only lasts for an hour. Using something makeshift like a milk carton also carries the risk of the tooth being damaged by rubbing against the walls of the container. The dentist also has to “fish” for the tooth making the risk of damage even higher.

The need for Save-A-Tooth® ranges over just about every profession and niche out there. Even something as simple as tripping on a step can result in a knocked out tooth. However, there are some fields in particular that use Save-A-Tooth® more than others, for these people we have created additional information to aid you in your knowledge about saving knocked out teeth.

Why should I use it?

Children are a lot of work, always active, and one of the most important parts of your life. If a child knocks a tooth out and it is not saved, your child will be stuck with dentures until the age of 18. Teenagers over the age of 18 will need a permeant solution that could cost over $3,000. Families shouldn’t have to deal with heartache and financial stress over a knocked out tooth. Save-A-Tooth is inexpensive and can save your family a lot of trouble.

What’s a good example?

Let’s say your child is riding her bike in the driveway. She comes into the house crying, “Mommy my teeth are gone!” You see her bleeding mouth, and gaps where her teeth used to be. Luckily you were one of the parents who bought a Save-A-Tooth and knew the proper method for handling a knocked out tooth. You run to the car and grab the Save-A-Tooth, pick the teeth up by the enamel, and drop it in the Save-A-Tooth®. Then you can clean her scraped knee, and call your family dentist to get the tooth reimplanted.

If you had used milk, your day would turn from a minor trauma into a nightmare afternoon. Instead of having a convenient Save-A-Tooth at your fingertips, you would have to search your fridge for fresh milk (sour milk kills knocked out teeth) and a container that is non breakable and keep the teeth from bumping around during transport. Because milk only keeps teeth alive for an hour you would have to rush to the emergency room, neglecting her other wounds.

Why should I use it?

Save-A-Tooth® provides a missing link in the storage and resuscitation of an avulsed tooth. This means better care for your patients and easier operation procedures for you. Not only does Save-A-Tooth contain HBSS to keep teeth alive, it also has features designed specifically with the dentist in mind, like a removable basket and a soft cap that make it easy to remove teeth without “fishing” for them. The system also washes and preps the tooth for reimplantation. This means that you can completely avoid damaging the tooth root when it comes into your office and go straight to surgery.

If you use our customizable Practice Building Program you can also bring in new customers as well as support your local community.

What’s a good example?

Let’s say you get a call from a local school nurse. The nurse called because they used a Save-A-Tooth distributed by you through the practice building program. You give instructions to the school nurse if she doesn’t know what to do already, and schedule an appointment. Later that day the child comes in with a parent who hands your assistant the Save-A-Tooth®. When you are ready to reimplant the tooth, you remove the basket, flip the basket onto the cap and proceed with the operation. Save-A-Tooth boasts

Without Save-A-Tooth®, there is no telling what a patient could come in with. They could come in with a carton of milk or a drinking glass or bottle filled with milk. worse yet they could arrive with a dead tooth that was stored in water or wrapped in a tissue. If the tooth was stored in milk there is a chance of survival.

First you would have to clean the tooth and put it into a medium (like HBSS or Viaspan®) that would resuscitate the tooth before surgery. After surgery, you have to hope that the tooth was viable enough to survive surgery. If the tooth doesn’t survive your patients will most likely be angry or disappointed, even more so when you tell them that they have to get fake teeth.

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