Oral hygiene and periodontal disease in male patients with oral cancer

Research has suggested that oral hygiene could have a critical role in the pathogenesis of oral cancer that is modifiable by level of education in the absence of well-established risk factors such as the use of tobacco and alcohol.1 Periodontitis is also emerging as an independent risk factor for oral cancer, yet its effect is often attenuated by more well-established risk factors.2,3 (Source: The British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery)

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