That swish test from Oral/dna Inc. has been highly criticized, and even called just a mechanism for dentists to make money doing. There was an article published in The Journal of Oral Oncology putting it down by Dr. Mark Lingen. The idea has a variety of flaws. A couple of the most glaring are that testing positive for HPV one day does not mean that your immune system will not have it cleared in 30-60 days as happens in most people. It is just a slice of time, and it is the long term persistence of the infection that is dangerous.

A repeat test if you are positive in 6 months (what the company recommends) that is still positive does not mean that it is persisting in you (the thing that makes it dangerous) it could just mean that your system cleared it and you got reinfected. You would have to be completely celibate, do no kissing etc. between tests to be sure that it was accurate and even then, 6 months is still not in the long-term dangerous period limit to be considered something to really worry about. Also the PCR method that they use to test the sample is not the current state of the art testing methodology. There is more, but I personally would not waste my $140.00 on paying for this test.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.