Milton Keynes dentist believes oral sex can give you mouth cancer

[Raineyrocks]

Bummer!  What I want to know is exactly how they identified the link.  Did they ask their patients?  I wonder if this dentist ever gets blow jobs or if offered I guess he says, "NO STOP THAT"!   

Milton Keynes dentist believes oral sex can give you mouth cancer
Dr Teresa Day

A MILTON Keynes dentist believes performing oral sex could lead to mouth cancer.
As famous star of Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction Michael Douglas revealed in June this year, doctors believed his throat and tounge cancer was apparently caused by performing oral sex.
HPV, the sexually transmitted virus best known as a cause of cervical and anal cancer and genital warts, is thought to be responsible for an increasing proportion of oral cancers.
As part of Mouth Cancer Action Month, Dr Teresa Day, clinical director and founder of Appledore Dental Clinic on Midsummer Boulevard. wanted to highlight HVP along with smoking, drinking excess alcohol and poor diet as the four main risks for developing mouth cancer.
Dr Day said: "Academics studies have actually identified that there is a link with oral sex and mouth cancer but how much needs more identification.
"Smoking and alcohol are also significant contributors and we are seeing more cases of mouth cancer in younger ages as a result of higher alcohol intake.
"We are encouraging people to get check ups, there are risks in everything we do but we all need to look at our lifestyle and make sure we know what risks we are running.
"Like the late 80's aids epidemic we just want to raise more awareness for people to think about what they are doing and who they are doing it with."
Tobacco is still the main cause for the disease however experts suggest that the human papillomavirus (HPV), transmitted through oral sex, could overtake tobacco and alcohol as the main risk factor in the next decade.
An estimated 60,000 people in the UK will be diagnosed with mouth cancer in the next decade.
Risks to look out for include ulcers that do not heal within three weeks, red and white patches and lumps or swellings in the mouth.
Patients at Appledore clinic have a full examination at their annual check ups.
As well as checking your teeth for signs of decay, they also look at the health of your gums and check your jaw joints with a special velscope light which helps detect unhealthy areas.
Mouth Cancer Action Month this November is organised by the British Dental Health Foundation to raise awareness of this disfiguring disease.


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[Jim Johnson]

This is baseless.

[Raineyrocks]

This is baseless.

Yup, that's why it's under TMI. 

[MaineShark]

Not news.  It's questionable what percentage of oral cancers are caused by HPV, since they don't always test biopsies, but the fact that some are is well-established.

Men are more likely to catch HPV from a woman than a woman is to catch it from a man during unprotected oral sex.  But barriers (dental dams or condoms) are nearly 100% effective at preventing oral transmission, so that's not a good excuse for men to refuse to perform oral.

Condoms don't provide perfect protection against genital transmission, so there's always some HPV risk during sex.  Condoms do reduce the risk, and actually protect the woman more than the man.  Transmission requires both that viral material move from one partner to the other, and that it find a receptive area of skin in which to establish itself.  Condoms don't cover all of the skin in the area, so transmission is possible even with the use of a condom.  However, the smooth surface of a condom results in less abrasion of the vaginal tissues than skin-on-skin contact, so the odds of the virus finding a spot to establish itself are reduced.  Men are still less likely to catch HPV from a woman than a woman is to catch it from a man, and condoms reduce the odds for either, but the percentage reduction for a woman is substantially higher than for a man.

HPV can also be transmitted by toilet seats and the like, so there's never going to be a 100%, perfectly safe scenario where someone living in the real world can guarantee they will never catch it.  And the odds of oral transmission are much lower than the odds of genital transmission, per act.  But many folks will have oral sex - and particularly unprotected oral sex - with a substantially larger number of partners than they will have genital-genital sex, so that can even out those odds.

And there's no practical test for HPV in males (and few options for females), so you can't know whether someone has it, the way you might with HIV or somesuch.

Some of the best (realistic, not "become a monk") protections are to use barriers for sex, including oral sex, and not to perform oral sex if you have a mouth injury (bit the inside of your cheek, just burned your mouth with pizza cheese, or whatever), or if you were recently eating something abrasive like corn chips, or within half an hour after you brushed your teeth (the first half hour after brushing your teeth, when your gums are still slightly raw, increases risk of numerous types of disease transmission, even from deep kissing - so brush your teeth well in advance of that hot date, not right before).

And the number one realistic way to avoid catching any STI?  Choose your partners carefully.  No barrier is perfect - best way to avoid catching some bug from your partner(s), is for your partner(s) not to have that bug...

[Raineyrocks]

Wow I am so grateful that my mother told us to line toilet seats before we ever used them, for real, I still do it!