Unfortunately, oral cancer is a disease that affects more than 600,000 people globally, each year, and can affect everything related to the mouth and oral cavity, such as the lips, palate, gums, tongue, larynx or pharynx.
Fortunately, medicine means evolution and, from year to year, all kinds of revolutionary devices appear on the market, meant to help both patients and doctors. With the help of such devices, in just 2 minutes, oral cancer can now be detected from the earliest stage – and you can even do it yourself.
Such tests are simple, non-invasive and painless, being based on the fluorescence and auto-fluorescence of cellular tissue. Cells contain molecules that become fluorescent when “triggered” by radiation of an appropriate wavelength, having a different response to light compared to other molecules.
In medicine, the fundamental approach to detecting dysplasia early oral cancers is the use of tissue-specific endogenous auto-fluorescence.
The auto-fluorescent behavior of tissues can be easily detected in the oral mucus with an optical filter after the excitation of the cells using a light from a standard polymerization lamp. A respected oral surgeon in Parker confirms that this technique allows the rapid detection of the internal surfaces of the oral mucosa, to provide an accurate aid for the detection of early oral cancer.
