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Important possible health tip if you want to avoid deadly mouth cancer. It's probable the UV lights used to quickly cure the new tooth epoxies may be triggering skin cancer inside the mouth.

This is an idea I have and let me tell you why I've arrived at it.

Someone close to me died of oral cancer. They got the oral cancer where they had had a tooth that had been repaired with epoxy in one of those UV lights that dentists now use to quickly make the epoxy harden.

As a result i researched oral cancer and one of the things that I learned about it was it it often occurs near problematic teeth. It's also been increasing in recent years.


So what can we conclude before there are years of research that prove something? What can we say from what we already know about what is likely?

We know oral cancer is on the rise. We know these new UV cured tooth epoxies are a relative new introduction. Previous epoxies hardened without light but more slowly. Well we know UV light causes skin cancer. We also know that the skin inside someone's mouth has absolutely no protection against UV radiation because it is not typically exposed to the sun. We also know that problematic teeth that would likely have been treated by a dentist in in recent times they would have likely used the new UV light hardening epoxies because they're almost instant and they allow a dentist to see many more patients much more quickly. We also know these UV lights are powerful enough to instantly change the molecular structure of the epoxy from the UV energy which is what causes the epoxy to harden instantly.

So if you put all these things together it forms a logical possible conclusion that the increased use of intense molecular changing UV light inside the mouth which has no protection against UV light could be causing an increase in mouth cancers at the area of problematic teeth.

Mouth cancers are extremely deadly if you don't extricate them almost immediately. Because the mouth heals very quickly the cancers also grow very quickly. They spread and because of their proximity to the brain stem often spread to the brain and kill you. Furthermore the only real treatment is very debilitating as large portions of your mouth need to be cut out including jaw and sinus cavities. If you ever have any small wound inside your mouth that is odd and doesn't heal in a day or two immediately go to an oral surgeon and fight to get it removed because we're talking about something that can grow in a week not in a month. And in that week it can embed itself into your jawbone and suddenly What might have been a surface extraction becomes a bone cutting exercise with the resulting permanent use of plastic inserts like dentures that you must wear just so you can continue to breathe through your nose and eat food without it going into your nose.

Now I've not seen any research that links these dental UV lights to mouth cancers but it all makes sense. I don't need to see a piece of research to tell me that if someone touches me with a hot poker that it's going to burn my skin. And these UV lights are strong enough to change the molecular structure of the epoxy instantly so it hardens so they're strong enough with enough energy to affect the DNA of especially vulnerable unshielded mouth skin.

So I don't know about you but when I go to the dentist if they ever use an epoxy I'm going to demand that they use the old style epoxy that hardens on its own without the use of a UV light. And personally I'm going to avoid the UV light tooth whitening processes. Again if the light is strong enough to bleach your teeth then think about what it's doing to the raw unprotected skin inside your mouth.

It's just a thought but I think it's logical. I'm not a doctor and this isn't medical advice. It's just logical extrapolation of some known facts to a logical conclusion without waiting for peer-reviewed studies which would likely be influenced by the manufacturers of the UV curing epoxies and the dental associations which would have a financial interest in saying it's all safe just like cigarette manufacturers said for years.

You draw your own conclusions.

If anyone has contrary evidence I would love to see it.