Friday, January 19, 2018

Your dentist might soon ask about your sex life-here's why

You're well-versed at asking the usual questions at your biannual dental checkup: do you have any toothaches, or pain when you chew? Do you floss every day ? Now, there may be another line of questions coming: those about your sex life. Questions about oral sex may be key to prevention of oropharyngeal cancers of the throat, tonsils and back of the tongue, which can be caused by human papillomavirus spread through oral sex .

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