{"id":519,"date":"2022-11-04T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/?p=519"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:34:39","slug":"mouth-cancer-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/uncategorized\/mouth-cancer-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouth Cancer Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">November &#8211; Oral Health Foundation&#8217;s Mouth Cancer Action Month<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Oral Health Foundation aims, this month, to make us all &#8220;mouthaware&#8221;.\u00a0 They have produced this, really easy to follow, video of how you can check your mouth, at home, for any signs of mouth cancer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dentalhealth.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=80dd2f83763ace662aa4acd9c&amp;id=4d545a3200&amp;e=3f601a3c02\"><strong>Mouth cancer check guide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All our dentists routinely check our patients for oral (mouth) cancer, at every check-up.\u00a0 These are the most common signs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <span style=\"color: #000000;\">mouth ulcer<\/span>\u00a0that does not heal within 3 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>A white or red patch in the mouth.<\/li>\n<li>Any unusual lumps in your mouth or jaw area and any persistent hoarseness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.\u00a0 Through out November, we are offering a free oral cancer check to everyone, so even if you are not normally one of our patients we are happy to arrange a short appointment for you, free-of-charge, with one of our dentists, for your peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p>The risk factors for oral cancer are: smoking\/tobacco, alcohol, history of cancer, sunlight\/sunbeds, HPV, genetics and an unhealthy diet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November &#8211; Oral Health Foundation&#8217;s Mouth Cancer Action Month The Oral Health Foundation aims, this month, to make us all &#8220;mouthaware&#8221;.\u00a0 They have produced this, really easy to follow, video of how you can check your mouth, at home, for any signs of mouth cancer: Mouth cancer check guide All our dentists routinely check our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}