VELscope
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A Niagara Falls, Ontario, dentist, James Frizzell, DDS, offers patients advanced care in welcoming, comfortable surroundings. In addition to teeth whitening, dentist James Frizzell. DDS, also offers services such as veneers and natural-looking crowns. He also performs VELscope Vx Enhanced Oral Assessment System cancer screening, which addresses a critical patient need.
The sixth most common cancer type, head and neck cancer diagnoses includes oral cancers of the larynx and pharynx. With nearly 650,000 cases reported around the globe each year, squamous-cell carcinoma offers a relatively high survival rate of up to 81 percent, provided it is detected early.
World Health Organization-recognized, the noninvasive VELscope technology involves blue light stimulation of stromal and epithelial cells. The self-fluorescence of affected tissues enables morphological changes to be readily detected within the mouth. VELscope thus provides enhanced visualization of pre-malignant dysplasia and oral cancer. If oral mucosal abnormalities are discovered, further examinations with a physician utilizing scalpel biopsy may be required.
