Oral precancer and the HPV connection.

All dental care professionals need to educate themselves and their patients about the relationship between oropharyngeal cancers, HPV, and risk factor management. A risk factor manager is an early interventionist whose tasks are performing diagnostic testing, gathering data, and putting it into a meaningful report for the care providers. Risk factor managers practice on all three levels of prevention, including proactively identifying risks for oral precancer with the hope of changing our dread predictions.