For oral cancer, ceasing alcohol consumption for five to 9 years was linked to a 34% relative risk reduction, and doing so for 10-19 years was linked to a 55% relative risk reduction.

Scientists at the ADA Forsyth Institute have updated the Human Oral Microbiome Database (HOMD), a resource for the global scientific community to study microorganisms common to the oral cavity. The ...

In their models, those nurses who reported drinking one or more sugar-sweetened beverage daily (or five people per 100,000 population) had a 4.87 times higher risk of oral cavity cancer compared ...

The oral cavity is the door to the gastrointestinal tract and the rest of the body. Like the gut, the mouth is home to several diverse colonies of bacteria, fungi, viruses and protozoa .