{"id":10938,"date":"2014-04-04T09:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T09:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2014-04-04T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T09:11:35","slug":"study-identifies-new-risks-for-mouth-and-throat-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=10938","title":{"rendered":"Study identifies ‘new risks’ for mouth and throat cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The study found that irregular dental checks could increase the risk of mouth and throat cancer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Poor oral health and irregular dental checks can increase the risk of oral cancer, a new study has found.<\/p>\n

The International Agency for Research on Cancer report also found excessive use of mouthwash – more than three times a day – can also increase risk.<\/p>\n

Smoking, heavy drinking and “low socio-economic status” are established risk indicators of mouth and throat cancers.<\/p>\n

The study covered 1,962 cancer patients and a further 1,993 control subjects across nine countries in Europe.<\/p>\n

The study was led by the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in Bremen, Germany, (Bips) and backed by researchers from Glasgow University Dental School.<\/p>\n

‘Really important’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prof Wolfgang Ahrens, deputy director of Bips, described the study findings as “really important”.<\/p>\n

“Up until now, it was not really known if these dental risk factors were independent of the well known risks for mouth and throat cancers – smoking, alcohol and low socio-economic status,” he said.<\/p>\n

Prof Ahrens said the report findings were highly “nuanced” and there was an interconnectedness of many of the risk factors.<\/p>\n

The definition of poor oral health included people who had complete or part dentures and people with persistently bleeding gums.<\/p>\n

Dr David Conway, clinical senior lecturer at Glasgow University Dental School, said: “People should not assume that if they wear dentures and have none of their own teeth left, they have no need to see a dentist.<\/p>\n

“On the contrary, even if you have got dentures, you should make sure you go for regular check-ups.”<\/p>\n

People with poor dental care were defined as those who hardly ever or never brushed their teeth or visited the dentist.<\/p>\n

Dr Conway said the frequency of dental visits should be determined by a dentist’s risk assessment and if people fell into the low-risk category it could be once a year or even every two years.<\/p>\n

“It is not a case of one size fits all,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Visits could be six-monthly, but certainly not five-yearly.”<\/p>\n

Mouthwash ‘risk’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The research team said the possible role of mouthwash as a risk factor would require further research.<\/p>\n

They were unable to analyse the types of mouthwash used many years ago by participants in the study.<\/p>\n

Dr Conway added: “I would not advise routine use of mouthwash, full stop.<\/p>\n

“There are occasions and conditions for which a dentist could prescribe a mouthwash – it could be that a patient has a low salivary flow because of a particular condition or medicine they are taking.<\/p>\n

“But for me, all that’s necessary, in general, is good regular brushing with a fluoride toothpaste and flossing combined with regular check-ups by a dentist.”<\/p>\n

The findings of the study have been published in Oral Oncology.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poor oral health and irregular dental checks can increase the risk of oral cancer, a new study has found. The International Agency for Research on Cancer report also found excessive use of mouthwash – more than three times a day – can also increase risk. Smoking, heavy drinking and “low socio-economic status” are established risk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chinese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}