​Resources for Mouth Cancer Action Month

3 November 2022

Dentists and teams will be supporting the Oral Health Foundation's Mouth Cancer Action Monthcampaign this month, by raising awareness of oral cancers with patients.

The following resources are available for dental professionals to further your knowledge on detection and to help you educate your patients on what to look out for.

Free oral cancer toolkit

The popular oral cancer toolkit in partnership with Cancer Research UK helps you identify and refer possible cases of oral cancer. You can also earn 3 hours of verifiable CPD.

Journals and CPD

• BDJ collection on mouth cancer
  
• Oral cancer and oral dysplasia webinar with Professor Richard Shaw, Liverpool Head and Neck Centre. Wednesday 23 November 2022 at 19:30 - 20:30
  

Ebooks 

All members can download free dental textbooks from our library. Call 020 7563 4545 or email library@bda.org to obtain your password.

• Orofacial Supportive Care in Cancer - A Contemporary Oral Oncology Perspective
• Textbook of Oral Cancer - Prevention, Diagnosis and Management

Library topic packages

We have around 500 folders of articles available for loan on a range of different dental subjects, borrowed in the same way as a book. They're posted out to members free of charge on loan for one month.

• Cancer of the mouth
• Cancer of the mouth: diagnosis and screening
• Cancer of the mouth: risk factors