House of Commons turns blue

Oral health charity the British Dental Health Foundation will launch their month-long campaign, Mouth Cancer Action Month, to tackle a disease which has increased by 50 per cent in the last decade alone.

Sponsored by Denplan, the mouth cancer campaign will be officially launched by the Rt. Hon. Sir Paul Beresford and will feature an announcement about this year’s theme – the blue lip selfie.

The Blue Lip Selfie campaign will attempt to confront the lack of knowledge which surrounds mouth cancer by making everybody mouthaware. The British Dental Health Foundation believe if people are aware of changes in their mouth, and in particular ulcers that do not heal within three weeks, lumps or swellings and red and white patches in the mouth, they are in a better position to act quickly.

Chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation, Nigel Carter, called on those in attendance to take the campaign messages to the public in the hope of reducing growing mouth cancer rates.