Oral Cancer Screening
What is Oral Cancer
Screening?
Screening?
Oral cancer includes cancers of the lips, tongue, floor of the mouth, cheeks, throat (pharynx), sinuses, and hard and soft palate. Dr. Rogers has been trained to check for and diagnose oral cancer.
When detected early, patients have a nearly 90% oral cancer survival rate. Health care experts recommend a complete oral soft tissue exam at least once a year.
Why is Oral Cancer Screening
important?
important?
While oral cancer can usually be successfully treated when detected early, most oral cancer cases are not detected until they have progressed into a more serious, advanced stage that is much more difficult to treat. In fact, oral cancer may be life threatening. At Rogers Center for Dentistry, we are dedicated to doing all we can to detect and treat oral cancers and other abnormalities at the earliest possible stage. During your routine dental cleanings and exams at our office, Dr. Rogers will perform an oral cancer screening to check for the signs of oral cancer.
What is the Process?
During an oral cancer screening exam, your dentist looks over the inside of your mouth to check for red or white patches or mouth sores. Using gloved hands, your dentist also feels the tissues in your mouth to check for lumps or other abnormalities.
FAQs
The following are common symptoms of oral cancer:
- A persistent sore throat or feeling that something is caught at the back of the throat
- Unexplained bleeding in the mouth
- A persistent or lasting sore on the face, neck, or mouth that bleeds easily and does not heal within two weeks
- Unexplained loss of feeling, pain or numbness in the face, neck, or mouth
- Ear pain
- Lumps, bumps, or rough spots on the gums, lips or other parts of the mouth
- Red, white, or speckled red-and-white patches in the mouth
- Difficulty chewing, speaking or swallowing
- A change in the way your teeth or dentures fit together
While the doctor will perform a screening for oral cancer to check for these and other symptoms, we encourage you to contact us if you notice any of these problems or if you experience any other type of dental pain.
While the doctor will perform a screening for oral cancer to check for these and other symptoms, we encourage you to contact us if you notice any of these problems or if you experience any other type of dental pain.
Anyone can get oral cancer, smokers, and nonsmokers alike. In the U.S., more than 40,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer each year. Other notables diagnosed with this serious disease include:
- Gwyneth Paltrow’s father – Bruce Paltrow
- television producer – Aaron Spelling
- baseball great – Babe Ruth
- movie critic – Roger Ebert
- rock star – Eddie Van Halen
- Movie star – Michael Douglas
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