How Visiting Your Dentist Can Be Good for Your Breasts
First they were screening for osteoporosis, and now they’re screening for breast cancer! Well, not quite yet, but new research has indicated that dentists may be great allies in the battle against breast cancer.
Academy of American Dentistry researchers discovered that…
…protein levels in saliva have great potential to assist in the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care of breast cancer. And general dentists are perfect candidates to assist with this diagnosis samples because they can easily remove saliva samples from a patient’s mouth during routine visits. As the AGD’s Vice-President Paula Jones, DDS, FAGD says, “Since a patient visits the dentist more frequently than their physician, it makes sense that this diagnostic tool could be very effective in the hands of the general dentist.”
Yet another good reason to see your dentist regularly!
Tags: Academy-of-American-Dentistry, Breast cancer, dental-care, dentist, diagnosis, Health, osteoporosis, Protein, saliva, screening, treatment, woman, women, Womens-HealthRelated Stories
POSTED IN: Cancer, Medicine, New research, Prevention, Women's Issues
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3 opinions for How Visiting Your Dentist Can Be Good for Your Breasts
Pat
Mar 24, 2007 at 2:32 am
There’ no good reason why we shouldn’t visit our dentist. Even if there is no problem, regular check up is still good for us. Time and availability is the only problem.
Kristen King
Mar 24, 2007 at 2:52 am
I agree! We need to make it a priority.
kk
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Jan 22, 2008 at 5:35 pm
[…] new form of breast cancer screening (which we actually talked about in March 2007) uses proteins found in saliva to detect the presence of early breast cancer tumors in women. […]
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