{"id":1606,"date":"2019-11-21T07:51:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T07:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T08:06:15","slug":"mouth-cancer-action-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/mouth-cancer-action-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouth Cancer Action Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"372\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mouth-cancer-month.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mouth-cancer-month.jpg 372w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mouth-cancer-month-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/blue-ip.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1608\" width=\"356\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/blue-ip.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/blue-ip-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/blue-ip-624x706.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><figcaption>Brightside Team Members&#8217; Blue Lip Selfie To Promote Awareness of Mouth Cancer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Mouth Cancer Action month takes place in November and has been an event organised by the Oral Health Foundation since 2000. The purpose is to raise the awareness of mouth cancer and to be &#8220;mouthaware&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year over 8000 people were diagnosed with mouth cancer in the UK. The chances of beating mouth cancer are greatly increased if it is spotted early and treated accordingly. With early diagnosis, the odds of survival are 9 out of 10. However, it&#8217;s often detected at a later stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the link to see Brightside Dental&#8217;s principal dentist Ketan discuss further about mouth cancer and what you can do to reduce your risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BSTV Ep 44 - Mouth Cancer Action Month\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_CAE4YwTNtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At Brightside Dental, we carry out screening for mouth cancer as part of all of our new patient visits and regular oral health assessments. If you would like further advice give us a call on 020 88884401 or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentalhealth.org\/mouthcancer\">https:\/\/www.dentalhealth.org\/mouthcancer<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mouth Cancer Action month takes place in November and has been an event organised by the Oral Health Foundation since 2000. The purpose is to raise the awareness of mouth cancer and to be &#8220;mouthaware&#8221; Last year over 8000 people were diagnosed with mouth cancer in the UK. The chances of beating mouth cancer are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/mouth-cancer-action-month-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mouth Cancer Action Month<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}