Next time you go to your dentist for a checkup-you may want to check up on your dentist-to make sure you are getting more than a cleaning or a filling repaired.
Roxanne Stein shows us that one of the newest tools in a dentist office is one that fights cancer.
It may look like a lot of other tools uses for your regular dental check up-but this has a life saving function.
Light that can detect oral cancer. "There are 3 color lights that emanate from this device."
Until this technology, doctors have been able to check for oral cancer physically and visually. Now, with this technology, they can detect oral cancer in its earliest and most treatable phases.
This is the new Trimira Oral Examination Light that Dr. Lawrence Grayhills is using at his Wellington office.
Now, fluorescent light can see early signs of a killer.
"Looking at the tissue it looks completely normal until we use these spectrums of light."
There are 3 fluorescent colors. The first-regular light. "You can't see real problems under natural light."
"The beauty is when we switch to the next color which is lavender." That color light, would reflect any early changes in the tissue in the mouth.
"Looking at tissue it looks completely normal until we use these spectrums of light."
Shedding light and finding a silent killer in its earliest stages. "You can't put a value on success."
The oral cancer screening light is included as part of the dental exam-there isn't an extra charge.
