ViziLite Plus
There’s one step in your dental visit you can’t live without: Oral Cancer Screening.
Oral cancer is one of the most curable diseases when it’s caught early. That why Dr. Sakai office has started performing an annual ViziLite exam, in combination with a conventional visual examination. ViziLite Plus uses technology that has been proven successful in identifying precancerous and cancerous abnormalities.
ViziLite Plus helps your dentist identify oral lesions at their earliest stages of development. When premalignant lesions or early stage oral cancer is found, treatment is simpler, less invasive and more than 90% successful.
Are you at risk for oral cancer? Virtually everyone is.
INCREASED RISK
*Patients age 18-39 without lifestyle risk factors
HIGH RISK
*Patients age 40 and older without lifestyle risk factors
*Tobacco users (any age, and type)
HIGHEST RISK
*Patients age 40 and older with lifestyle risk factors (tobacco use/alcohol consumption)
*Patients with history of oral cancer
The American Cancer Society estimates a 5.5% increase in new cases of oral cancer and a 1.5% increase in deaths associated with oral cancer.
And if you think you are not at risk for oral cancer, think again: 25% of oral cancers occur in people who don’t smoke and have no other lifestyle risk factors. Virtually everyone is at risk for oral cancer, including you. That’s why you dentist recommends a simple, potentially lifesaving screening exam:
