ASPEN DENTAL PRACTICES DONATE MORE THAN $30,000 TO THE ORAL CANCER FOUNDATION FOR ORAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

Syracuse, NY – Nearly 600 AspenDental-branded practices in 35 states donated a combined $30,795 to the Oral Cancer Foundation (OCF) as the result of an oral cancer screening program held in April as part of Oral Cancer Awareness Month.

During April, Aspen Dental practices contributed $5 for each adjunctive oral cancer screening conducted. In total, 6,159 patients were screened. Since 2010, Aspen Dental-branded practices have donated more than $135,000 to OCF.

“The incidence of oral and oropharyngeal cancers has increased again this year, and we estimate that nearly 50,000 Americans will be newly diagnosed with oral or oropharyngeal cancer in 2017 with almost a fifth of those individuals dying from it this year,” said Natalie Riggs, Director of Special Projects for The Oral Cancer Foundation. “Through the work of our partners like Aspen Dental,...