Sun Life Financial has added oral cancer screening as a covered procedure on most new dental cases. Coverage is available on plans that became effective Sep. 1 or later for pre-diagnostic tests:
|- Toluidine blue stain: Lesions in the mouth are coated with a blue dye. Areas that stain darker are more likely to be cancer or become cancer.
- Fluorescence staining: Lesions in the mouth are viewed using a special light after a fluorescent mouth rinse.
- Exfoliative cytology: A piece of cotton, a brush, or a small wooden stick is used to gently scrape cells from the lips, tongue, mouth or throat. The cells are viewed under a microscope to determine if they are abnormal.
- Brush biopsy: Cells are removed with a brush designed to collect cells from all layers of a lesion. The cells are viewed under a microscope to find out if they are abnormal.
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