Dentists' macabre scheme to extract children's healthy milk teeth for stem cells by offering a £100 bonus for each one …

By Stephanie Condron and Jo Macfarlane

PUBLISHED: 16:11 EST, 21 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:11 EST, 21 July 2012

An urgent inquiry has been launched after The Mail on Sunday discovered dentists are being offered cash incentives to remove healthy milk teeth from children to harvest stem cells.

Hundreds of dentists are preparing to offer parents the 1,300 service, marketed as a way to protect against future diseases because stem cells can turn into any kind of cell and help repair damaged tissue.

Dentists will be rewarded with a cash bonus of 100 for each patient who supplies a tooth to be processed.

Precious Cells' founder Husein Salem tweeted this picture of him (centre) with reality TV stars Chantelle Houghton, left, and Alex Reid, right

There is no evidence as yet that dental stem cells can be used for medical purposes but research is ongoing.

And last night critics said healthy teeth should never be removed unless for dental reasons. It appears that any other removal could breach strict standards set down by the General Dental Council.

The GDC rules state dentists must put patients interests before their own or those of any organisation or business.

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