with Dr. Parul Dua Makkar
Dua Good Job offers a comprehensive oral cancer program for dentists, hygienists, and healthcare professionals. Its distinguishing feature is that it goes beyond lesion recognition to cover screening…
Dua Good Job offers a comprehensive oral cancer program for dentists, hygienists, and healthcare professionals. Its distinguishing feature is that it goes beyond lesion recognition to cover screening, documentation, risk factors, referral decisions, treatment-related complications, survivorship, and patient communication.
Best practical takeaways: identifying suspicious versus benign lesions, recognizing HPV, tobacco, alcohol, and vaping risks, documenting clinical findings, deciding when observation or biopsy is appropriate, discussing concerning findings with patients, and supporting patients before and after cancer treatment.
The course is shaped by Dr. Parul Dua Makkar’s clinical experience and personal advocacy following her brother’s oral cancer diagnosis, giving the education a strong emphasis on empathy, prevention, and the dentist’s role throughout the patient’s cancer journey.
Best for: Dental teams seeking a repeatable oral cancer screening protocol and greater confidence managing suspicious findings and cancer-related patient care.
The biggest takeaway for me was learning how to make oral cancer screening more consistent and intentional. Before this course, I was doing screenings, but I did not always feel like I had a clear system for what to look for, how to document it, or when something needed to be monitored versus referred. The course gave me a much more organized approach to the entire process.
Dr. Parul Dua Makkar made the material feel practical and relevant to everyday dentistry. I came away more confident identifying suspicious findings, documenting lesions, talking to patients about concerns, and deciding on the appropriate next step. What stood out most was that the course did not stop at detection. It also covered patient communication, referral decisions, risk factors, and how the dental team can support patients through diagnosis and treatment. That made it feel much more complete than a typical oral cancer awareness lecture. Great follow up support afterwards as well!
This course is a strong fit for dentists and hygienists who already perform oral screenings but want a more structured and thorough protocol. It is especially helpful for clinicians who have ever found something unusual and felt unsure about how to explain it to the patient or what to do next.