VELscope: It Could Save Your Life

Every hour of every day someone in the U.S. dies of oral cancer.
                                                                -Oral Cancer Foundation

VELscope® is a revolutionary hand-held device that provides dentists and hygienists with an easy-to-use system for the early detection of abnormal tissue. The screening involves use of a special light to illuminate abnormal cells so that they appear distinctly different from the surrounding normal tissue. The clinician is then able to immediately view the different fluorescence responses to help differentiate between normal and abnormal tissue. In fact, VELscope is the only non-invasive adjunctive device clinically proven to help discover occult oral disease.

While the statistics on oral cancer are discouraging, when the disease is found and treated in the early stages it has an 80 - 90% cure rate.