Fort McMurray Dental is thrilled to be able to present the VELscope Oral Cancer Screening System. This remarkable equipment was developed in Canada for the purpose of detecting hidden or previously undetectable oral cancer lesions.

If you are interested in this new technology and would like to obtain further information on the VELscope system, then you can visit their website at www.velscope.com.

VELscope is a new tool used as an oral mucosal examination. It is a revolutionary hand-held device that supplies the dentists and hygienists with an easy-to-use adjunctive mucosal examination system for the early detection of abnormal tissue.

The patented VELscope technology platform was developed in collaboration with the British Columbia Cancer Agency and MD Anderson Cancer Center, with funding provided in part by the NIH. It is based on the direct visualization of tissue fluorescence and the changes in fluorescence that occurs when abnormalities are present.

The VELscope Handpiece emits a safe blue light into the oral cavity of the mouth, which will excite the tissues from the surface of the epithelium through to the basement membrane and into the stroma beneath causing it to fluoresce. The clinician is then able to immediately view the different fluorescence responses to help differentiate between normal and abnormal tissues. VELscope is in fact, the only non-invasive adjunctive device clinically proven to help discover occult oral disease areas.

Underneath the VELscope examination light, abnormal tissue typically appears as irregular, dark areas that appear much different from your otherwise normal, green fluorescence pattern of surrounding healthy tissues.

For more information about VELscope please call our office at (780) 791-5538 and we will be more than happy to show you the incredible life saving health benefits of this system with no cost to you! Just another way Fort McMurray Dental can better your health!