DENVER -- New research suggests that storing a baby's teeth might just help save their life in the future.

More and more parents are investing in the idea that stem-cell research might one day help find a cure to a major disease.

"To think you could take a tooth from your child's mouth and potentially help cure a disease that they could get down the road," said parent Wendy Freyschlag.

"This is a non-controversial way to collect stem cells," said Dr. Scott Greenhalgh of Arbor Dental Group.

Greenhalgh urges parents to invest their children's teeth in a stem-cells tooth bank.

He found a storage company in Texas that will send parents a kit with steps to follow. The teeth are then sent to the tooth bank.

"My side of the family (has) Alzheimer's and Parkinson's," Freyschlag said. "So, it seemed like a good investment."

It's an investment that Dr. Jeff Stansbury from the Univeristy of Colorado School of Dentistry said might not work.

"You're taking out an insurance policy," he said. "The trouble is there's no guarantee that an insurance policy is going to pay off if you need to use it."

But it's a chance that parents like Freyschlag and Greenhalgh have high hopes for when it comes to stem cell research.

"Ten years ago we didn't have iPods," Greenhalgh said. "It's hard to say what's going to happen with the technology."

Storing your baby's teeth will cost about $600 to start, then annual fees after that.

For more information about banking your baby's teeth, click here.