Su Yin Htun

Title: Early detection of oral cancer with current diagnostic tools

Abstract:

Objective:  To examine the oral cavity of individuals in the population, seek lesions, incipient or otherwise, and raise awareness about the risks of oral cancer.
Discussion: Natural fluorophores in oral mucosa is excited by ViziLite PRO. Using natural tissue fluorescence to enhance the visualization of oral mucosa to help enable the earliest possible discovery of potentially malignant and cancerous lesions. Prevention and early diagnosis of oral cancer  screening performed by ViziLite PRO with the participation of faculty of the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and DMD dental students. We provide information about oral cancer, and perform clinical examination for early diagnosis in the individuals concerned. Participants of the oral cancer screening are random patients from out patient dental clinic at College of Oral Health Sciences and patients who visit to Oral Health fare public clinics.

Biography:

Dr. Htun earned her BDS and MDSc degrees from the University of Dental Medicine, Yangon, Myanmar and was a teaching faculty at the Teaching Hospital of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Dental Medicine, Yangon where she was trained for maxillofacial surgery until 2008 when she came as a recruited doctor to Jamaica. She has completed IAOMS’s Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Credentialing Course at Chile in 2011. She is a Fellow member of IAOMS in 2009 and also a member of AAOMS and BAOMS. Further more Dr.Htun was elected as Fellowship in the Academy of International Academy for Dental and Facial Esthetics (IADFE) in 2015 and Fellowship in the International College of Dentists (ICD) in 2017.
Dr. Htun is the invited speaker of AFAOMS. Her primary clinical interests include craniofacial surgery of birth defects, reconstruction and surgical management of craniofacial trauma. Publications and abstracts related to facial cleft deformity treatment are authored and co-authored.