Dr. Steve Tatevossian is pleased to offer his Redlands dental patients the most advanced oral cancer screening technology in his Redlands family dentistry office, ViziLite. Oral cancer kills one person every hour in the United States and with the dental technology of ViziLite offered in our Redlands dentist office early detection can minimize or eliminate the effects of oral cancer.

Are you at risk for oral cancer?

The mortality rate has stayed consistent for more than 40 years with one person in the US dying every hour. Even with a major predisposing risk factor of tobacco use, there are no lifestyle risk factors in 27% of oral cancer victims.

Sexually active patients between the ages of 18 and 39 have an increased risk of oral cancer. Patients with a history of oral cancer are at the highest risk for oral cancer, as are patients over 40 years old with lifestyle risk factors such as tobacco use. If you are a tobacco user under 40 years old you are still at a high risk, as well as if you are a patient over 40 years old.

ViziLite Helps Detect Pre-Cancerous Tissue

We offer ViziLite oral cancer screening as part of the annual comprehensive oral examinations at our Redlands dental office. Easy and painless, the ViziLite examination gives our Redlands family dentistry practice the best chance to find any oral abnormalities at the earliest possible stage. By detecting pre-cancerous tissue early Dr. Tatevossian is giving you the advantage of minimizing or possibly eliminating any of the possible disfiguring effects oral cancer causes as well as possible saving your life. The same type of early detection of cancer is also found with proven cancer screening technologies such as colonoscopy, PSA, mammogram, and Pap smear, but clinical studies found that ViziLite after a standard oral cancer examination improves a dentist’s ability to identify and evaluate suspicious areas at their earliest stages.

Call our Redlands dentist office today to add this oral cancer examination to your next dental appointment!