Your Dentist as Breast Cancer Detective?
April 22, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Cancer, Health, Healthcare, How To, Medicine, Misc., Morning News, Prevention
We think of dental offices as places to have teeth cleaned and fillings filled. We don’t usually think of them as a place to get tested for breast cancer.
But new research and studies have appeared that show the dentist chair might just be the place to go for early detection of breast cancers.
Charles Streckfus, D.D.S., a professor of diagnostic services at the University of Texas in Houston, has come up with the simple idea of chewing gum to detect breast cancer.
Here’s how it works: You chew the gum for around 5 minutes and then spit it into a cup where it …read more
