{"id":2325,"date":"2017-07-29T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T21:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:17:43","slug":"oral-cancer-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/oral-cancer-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Cancer Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do an oral cancer screening on all patients, and usually end up doing about 1 biopsy a month. I use magnification glasses, and it only takes about 20 seconds- I know what to look for!\u00a0 This month I did 3 biopsies, and that motivated me to write this blog post on oral cancer exams.\u00a0 Two were benign fibromas, and the other was a papiloma (HPV) showing mild to moderate dysplasia. I removed this fibroma on the inside of the patient’s lower lip because he kept biting it and it was annoying and bothering him.<\/p>\n

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The papilloma virus patient\u00a0 had no idea the lesion was there. This lesion was way back on his soft palate and I didn’t even see it until I held his tongue down to check his throat. This papilloma was showing mild to moderate dysplastic changes and could have turned into oral cancer.<\/p>\n

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I do an oral cancer screening on all patients, and usually end up doing about 1 biopsy a month. I use magnification glasses, and it only takes about 20 seconds- I know what to look for!\u00a0 This month I did 3 biopsies, and that motivated me to write this blog post on oral cancer exams.\u00a0 … Continue reading Oral Cancer Screening<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[11,123,30,10,101,12,71,124,15,86,125,17,16],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oral-cancer","tag-arlington","tag-biopsy","tag-dental","tag-dentist","tag-dentistry","tag-dr-gentry","tag-dr-philip-gentry","tag-fibroma","tag-northern-virginia","tag-oral-cancer","tag-papilloma","tag-philip-gentry","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}