Could Dental Caries Actually be a Good Thing?

Dental caries may protect against certain cancers
Posted: September 17, 2013 / Source: ClinicalAdvisor.com

HealthDay News -- People with cavities had lower incidence of head and neck cancers, perhaps due to heightened immune activity, study findings indicate.

Dental caries were significantly less common among 399 patients with head and neck cancers than among 221 people without a cancer diagnosis, Mine Tezal, DDS, PhD, of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and colleagues, reported in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

"To our knowledge, the present study suggests, for the first time, an independent association between dental caries and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma," they wrote.

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