Jerry,

I hope your efforts in the dental community can bring some results. I continue to be amazed (and discouraged) to hear about recent instances where a dental professional completely missed some obvious warning signs.

Within the past two weeks, I attended two charity fundraisers (for two completely unrelated organizations) and at both of them I happened to be seated next to people that I discovered were oral cancer survivors. One of them was diagnosed and treated within the past year, but the discovery of the cancer was delayed due to her dentist's inability to figure out the significance of her symptoms. It was only after she moved on to an oral surgeon that she got the biopsy she needed.

Cathy