{"id":860,"date":"2016-03-15T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/the-seven-most-common-signs-of-oral-cancer\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T07:18:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:18:50","slug":"the-seven-most-common-signs-of-oral-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/dental-blog\/the-seven-most-common-signs-of-oral-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Most Common Signs of Oral Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The most important part of your bi-annual dental checkup has nothing to do with your teeth.\u00a0During these exams, your\u00a0general dentist<\/a>\u00a0will screen you for oral cancer.<\/strong>\u00a0Oral cancer can affect different areas of your mouth and throat, including the voice box, the tonsils, the back of the tongue, and the soft palate (the soft spot at the roof of your mouth). The screening is painless. Your dentist will look into your throat, examine your mouth, and touch your neck to feel your lymph nodes. Why is this screening so vital? Because\u00a0oral cancer has a higher death rate than most other cancers<\/a>. However, if you suspect that you have any of\u00a0these seven most common signs of oral cancer<\/a>, don’t wait for your annual appointment to see your dentist.<\/p>\n There are several precautions you can take to dramatically\u00a0reduce your risk<\/a>\u00a0for oral cancer:<\/p>\n Of course, there are some oral cancer risk factors you can’t change, such as family history. If you have a family history of oral cancer, you should notify your dentist. An accurate and up-to-date medical history is vital to allowing him or her to tailor a treatment plan for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The most important part of your bi-annual dental checkup has nothing to do with your teeth.\u00a0During these exams, your\u00a0general dentist\u00a0will screen you for oral cancer.\u00a0Oral cancer can affect different areas of your mouth and throat, including the voice box, the tonsils, the back of the tongue, and the soft palate (the soft spot at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedentalexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Signs of Oral Cancer<\/h2>\n
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Avoiding Oral Cancer<\/h2>\n
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