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Tyler Ames, DMD, designs customized oral stents for head and neck cancer patients.
June 6, 2019

Custom stents saving smiles for some oral cancer patients

When Laura McClure-Barnes, MD, learned she needed radiation therapy following surgery for adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare cancer of the salivary glands, she knew that radiation could damage healthy tissue and bone near the tumor.

By Jill Clendening