That is the $64,000 dollar question..... There are published studies that show that far too many dentists do not perform the screening, and many dentists do not know enough about oral cancer to do it properly. This is a sad commentary on dentistry as a whole.

Here are the answers. Dentists are trained to do it in school. It SHOULD be part of every oral examination, but it is not. When you ask dentists if they are doing it, they will all say yes, but when I have talked to their office staffs, the answer is different. There isn

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.