Dental Abstracts magazine features editorial by OCF founder Brian Hill

8/10/2003 Brian Hill Dental Abstracts Magazine,. Mosbey Publishing This month's issue of Dental Abstracts, from Mosbey Publishing, features an editorial regarding the need for additional efforts on the part of the US dental community in the early detection of oral cancers written by OCF founder Brian Hill. The Spanish language version of the magazine also carries the editorial outside the US. “ I was surprised but pleased that a US dental magazine would invite me to write a piece on the foundation's perspectives related to the late diagnosis of oral cancer here in the US,” says Hill. “I believe this is largely a result of Dr. Larry Meskin becoming the editor of this journal. Dr. Meskin has a long history as an advocate for oral cancer screening within the dentist community. Hill has long believed that more could be done by American dentists to discover these lesions in their earliest, highly curable stages. The content of the editorial follows. Dental Lifesavers? An oxymoron? Perhaps not. We know that dentists and hygienists are not thought of by the public, and do not think of themselves, as people who engage in the saving of lives. After all, they are not ER doctors. But when either of these dental professionals finds an oral cancer in the course of their examinations, especially if at an early stage one or two, they have undoubtedly saved a life. The Oral Cancer Foundation has begun a Dental Lifesavers Program, designed to raise the visibility, awareness, and recognition [...]