Dental/Oral Care

You know the feeling. You forgot your water bottle so you dash into the dairy to get a new one. You’re annoyed because bottled water is expensive and you have five empty bottles stashed at home.

When you approach the shopkeeper, you can barely talk

After surgery and/or radiotherapy, many of us have problems with dry mouth and oral hygiene. 

It can be hard to clean the teeth adequately when you have trismus.

You know that feeling where you go for a walk in the cold wind and you breathe through y

Here are some instructions and information about using Oral 7 mouth care products. I have put these together after talking with the company rep, an oral medicine specialist and people on the Oral Cancer Foundation.

Biotene used to be the go-to produc

A summary of a talk given the Auckland Support Group in October 2015

Dr Kim Gear from Oral Health gave an interesting talk which sparked some animated discussion.

Below is a summary of her points and the issues raised by patients.

Radiotherapy, Kim s

Dental problems are common following treatment for head and neck cancer, particularly if treatment has had an impact on your salivary glands. Saliva helps to remove bacteria from your mouth so when it is not produced, bacteria stays on your teeth fo

We will put more formal resources up soon but what I have learnt from many talks at the Auckland meetings is the following 

• Have a thorough dental check up before treatment by surgery or surgery and radiation. They will probably give you the big den