Oral cancer awareness

Mouth cancer one of a challenging public health problems .It is the most common disease that affect any age, any sex group and does not discriminate.  On behalf of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists, oral cancer annual incidence and mortality show higher percentage around the world. Early diagnosis of oral cancer is the key fot better outcomes. There is a global interest about oral cancer awareness by raise level of patient education about the significance of visiting dentist regularly. Dentist as a healthcare provider in frontline with patients for regular screening of the mouth diseases. The people must know the risk factors for these cancers as well as their symptoms. These risk factor like: exposure to sunlight, smoking, tobacco, spicy foods, stress, HPV and poor nutition. Cancer control efforts are diverse, nowadays it is highly recommended the prevention way rather than treat the condition .Healthy nutrient diet is the most recently approach used for prevention and treatment of oral cancer