Small steps:

My husband is wearing a "Dental exams save lives" button and has had people ask about it. He says this is my wife's "club" and if they don't know about my journey with OC he explains it to them.

When I went to the ENT and Surgery clinics last week, I gave some of the buttons to the reception staff desks. I also gave some to the doctors, students, etc.
An ENT resident showed me that he was wearing the button I had given him. One of the students said that he had noticed one on a lab coat hanging in the MDs' surgery lounge.

The first year med student who removed the sutures told us she will probably go into ob-gyn so I told her about the link to HPV.

Yesterday when the appliance repairman had finished, I told him of the importance of thourogh dental exams to detect oral cancer. He told me that his wife works in a dental office and they had just gotten a light for checking. I had the state chapter box handy so I gave him a few brochures and some of my new OCF cards. When he comes back I will get the phone and address of the office to follow up.

As I go through multiple tests and xrays, I speak to the techs, transport people and others about OC.

There are many opportunities to tell people about OC and as caretakers, patients, friends and family it is important that we speak up because it is so unknown and misunderstood. If just one person is helped we have made a giant step forward.