This dentist may have saved a couple of lives after one scheduled cleaning.
“I saved someone’s life today. That has to be worth something,” Dr. Mackenzie Mac Kelley (@mackelleydds) told TikTok.
“I learned at a dental class one time that if a patient is missing adult teeth, they could have a higher risk of maybe developing colon cancer someday,” the dentist continued. She noticed that one of her patients was missing most of her adult teeth. It was cause for concern, and just to be safe, Kelley told her patient to get a cancer screening…