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Oral Cancer - Check yourself with these 6 simple steps

Oral Cancer may occur

  • If you drink excessive alcohol
  • If you use products that has tobacco in it.
  • If you have this habit like cheek chewing or lip biting
  • If your face is highly exposed to direct sunlight on a regular basis
  • If you have some dental problems
It is always good to know how to test yourself for the possible signs of oral cancer and have to do regular checks to prevent it before it progresses.
Check Yourself for Oral Cancer. Simple 6 steps to follow

Look at your:

1.) Head
Neck and face in a mirror, to see whether the left and right side of your face has the same shape. Also look at for any kind of bumps, lumps or swellings available on only one side of your face.

2.) Lips
Try pulling your lower lips and upper lips to see for any color changes or sores and then with the help of your forefinger and your thumb to feel and identify your lip for changes in texture, bumps and lumps.

3.) Neck
Try pressing the sides of your neck for feeling any kind of lumps or tenderness.

4.) Face
Check your face in front of the mirror for any color change or size change, extra growth, moles, sores. Do you see any of this?

5.) Roof of your mouth
Try tilting you head towards back and open your mouth widely to check the color change or for any lump. Also with the help of fore finger try running it over the roof of your mouth to check for any lumps.

6.) Cheek
Using your fingers try pulling out your cheeks to see it inside for white, red or any dark patches. With the help of index finger inside your cheek and thumb outside your cheek, try rolling and squeezing it smoothly your cheeks to check for any lumps or tenderness. 

You can repeat this on your other side cheek

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