Father of four and keen gamer, Joe was only 27 when he was told he had mouth cancer.
“I had an ulcer that I’d had on the side of my tongue that kept coming and going.
“But it was only there for sort of a couple of weeks and then disappeared. Looking back now, it was probably more evident with everything I know, but at the time it’s just just an ulcer that kept coming and going.
“I went to the dentist for a normal check, but my regular dentist was off sick. So, I saw a stand in dentist, who just happened to be his wife. She’d been retired for two or three years and had come back to the practice that day to fill in, and she had a briefing by the practice manager in the morning and was told about Mouth Cancer Awareness Week, which it just happened to be the first day of Mouth Cancer Awareness Week.
“I was the first patient that morning, she looked in my mouth and saw that I had a scar
rather than an actual ulcer at that time and then said ‘we are g… Source by Oral Health Foundation Read More
