"There's More to Oral Cancer Risks Than Alcohol and Tobacco" - Brett A. Miles, DDS, MD
April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month, and dentistrytoday.com will be celebrating the event with blogs, news stories, and other features all spotlighting the disease. During your coursework, you were taught that most of these high-risk lesions would occur on the lateral surface of the tongue, floor of the mouth, or buccal mucosa and that heavy smokers and drinkers were especially at risk for SCC. Fortunately, your education was excellent and these tenets hold true even today. Tobacco abuse is the single highest risk factor in the development of OCSCC. Heavy alcohol consumption still comes in at a close second place, says Brett Miles, DDS, MD, an associate professor of head and neck surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who authored this article.
- Brett A. Miles, DDS MD FACS, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Co-Chief Division Head and Neck Oncology and Fellowship Director, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mount Sinai Health System
