April is oral cancer awareness month, and we’d like to bring some facts to your attention that you may not know. While there isn’t a huge spotlight on oral cancer, it is actually responsible for one death every hour of every day. It will also affect close to 50,000 Americans this year alone, half of which will not be alive in the next five years. So even though we don’t hear that much about it, oral cancer is serious, and it’s numbers really haven’t improved over the years. This is due to late diagnosis, and why your dentist in Medford is reminding you not to miss your oral cancer screening!

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As you sit in the chair listening to your dentist talk about the treatment you need, it’s going in one ear and out the other. He said the dreaded words “you need a dental crown” and you tuned out, immediately thinking that you’ll never be able to fit that into your work schedule. The last time you had a crown done, it took 4 weeks to complete, not to mention the two additional visits required when your temporary crown kept coming off. He insists that you need this treatment done soon, and he also said something else you’re not sure you heard right – it can be done in one visit with CEREC technology?

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