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Mouth cancer awareness: how can you help your patients?

3 mins read Oral health and mouth cancer Patient education
Katie Caines, a dental nurse from Grants House Dental Practise in Frome, has taken part in Mouth Cancer Action Month every year with the Oral Health Foundation, helping to raise awareness of mouth cancer. This November, she shares her story to urge professionals to educate their patients on the risk factors and signs.

Mouth cancer is one of the most life-changing experiences that a patient can go through. It can be heartbreaking for both the patient and their family and friends to receive this devastating news.

Katie Caines has experience with this both in the dental practice and in her own family. Her father, Tim Walwin, sadly passed away four years ago from mouth cancer, but both decided to tell their story posthumously to help others in the profession and public.

Katie said, “For 20 years, I heard about it (mouth cancer), but I never knew what it truly meant.

“In November 2017, my father had an ulcer, and he passed away in February 2019. He sadly will not be the last one, but he was the first one I experienced.

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