Today's success: A destroyed upper jawbone

“We have made something that no-one has managed to successfully do before.” Real Estate Manager, Pekka, suffered from an aggressive tumor which destroyed his upper jawbone. Without treatment the tumor would have been fatal. At the Human Spare Parts program, we helped Pekka together with dentists and doctors from the Helsinki University Hospital by growing a new upper jawbone from his own stem cells and gave him a new chance to eat and speak normally. The treatment was the first of its kind in the world, in 2006. Read the story of one of our first patients and a breakthrough treatment.