Oral Cancer Screening in Madison WI

Dentists Detect Early Mouth, Gum, & Throat Cancer

TCD offers premium dental health care services in Madison, including complete oral cancer screenings for early detection. This early detection, combined with regular preventative dental care visits, is crucial to maintaining your oral health.

Madison WI Dental Cancer Screening Services: Your Best Bet in Stopping Oral Cancer

One person dies from oral cancer every hour, accounting for 8,000 deaths each year. The 5-year survival rate is only 50% due to late-stage diagnosis and has not improved in the past 50 years. This is due primarily due to the fact during this time, no one had changed the way to screen for the disease (a visual and manual examination of the oral cavity, head and neck). 

Planning an oral cancer screening at Total Care Dental can catch early-stage oral cancer and save your life. Don’t take your chances with oral cancer, make sure to schedule an early detection screening the next time you are at our Madison dentist’s office.

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Know What Oral Cancer Looks Like

 

• Sores or ulcers
• Red or white patches on the tongue, cheeks, gums, etc.
• Lumps/bumps on the throat, tongue, gums, lip or neck
• Difficulty swallowing or chewing
• Feeling of something stuck in the throat
• Unexplained numbness, pain or bleeding in the mouth
• Long-lasting sore throat
• Ear pain
• Dentures fit loosely
• Voice changes

 

The earliest stages of oral cancer are often painless, but a burning sensation can develop as cancer grows. If you have any of these symptoms for more than two weeks or are having trouble moving your tongue or swallowing, contact Madison’s Total Care Dental immediately. Our dentist’s cancer screening services are the best way to find and cure oral cancers.

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Oral Cancer Screening Cost

The cost of oral cancer screens can be covered by insurance from many of the top providers. Even if you have no dental insurance, the cost of the screening out-of-pocket is still affordable. We accept many of the major dental insurers and have available financing plans so all our patients can get oral cancer screenings. Catching and treating oral cancer in its early stages is more affordable for patients than treatment after a late-stage diagnosis.

Oral Cancer Treatment: There Are Options

All those statistics about diagnoses and mortality rates can be frightening, but there is hope. When oral cancer is caught early enough, treatment has a 90% success rate! There are a number of treatment options, often used in combination:

• Surgery to remove cancerous tissue
• Radiation therapy to destroy cancer cells and shrink tumors
• Chemotherapy to kill cancer cells using anti-cancer drugs

Depending on the stage of development when the cancer is diagnosed, the patient may require only one type of treatment or all three. Some patients also make use of supportive care to control pain, symptoms, side effects of treatment and emotional effects.

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• Composite Resin Fillings
• Crowns and Bridges
• Dental Implants
• Root Canals
• Dentures