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More than 92 percent of Illinois dentists provide oral cancer examinations for their patients, but a number of are not performing the procedures thoroughly or at optimum intervals, as per a new University of Illinois at Chicago study. With an incomplete understanding of the nature of pre-cancerous lesions and of proper examination techniques, some dentists in Illinois “are not doing all they should be doing to detect oral cancers in their patients,” said Charles LeHew of the UIC Cancer Center’s Center for Population Health and Health Disparities and the Institute for Health Research and Policy……..

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