Teaching patients how to perform an intra-oral self-examination to detect oral cancer is key to reducing the morbidity rates of this disease.

Joel Epstein, DMD, MSD, FRCD(C), FDS RCS(E), talks about the dental health implications of treatment for oral cancer and other related cancers.

Alice E. Curran, RDH, DMD, shares her expertise on why dental hygienists always need to be on the lookout for oral cancer, regardless of a patient’s risk factors.

Brian Schmidt, DDS, MD, PhD, talks about the link between the human papilloma virus and oral cancer.

Sol Silverman, Jr, MA, DDS, talks about normal/benign lesions and how to know when they need more serious attention.

The relationship between risk factors for oral cancer and what this means for the dental hygienist are discussed with Sol Silverman, Jr, MA, DDS.

Sol Silverman, Jr, MA, DDS, talks about the wide range of risk factors involved in oral and pharyngeal cancers.

Sol Silverman, Jr, MA, DDS, discusses the incidence of lesions or deviations from normal evolving into malignancies.

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene speaks with Sol Silverman, Jr, MA, DDS, about technologies that may aid in oral cancer diagnosis.

Sol Silverman, Jr, MA, DDS, discusses the importance of early detection in the fight against oral cancer.