Cancer patients often have poor oral hygiene, exacerbated by treatments, leading to ulcers, increased infection risk, and systemic inflammation.

“they have horrible oral hygiene they got the cancer they're depressed they start radiation right after surgery which they already can't brush their teeth because sometimes they they lose they half of their jaw they take their tongue so they're highly their ability so they stop brushing and they're going to radiate when they get into radiation then comes with arching radiation also changes the microbiome and they develop horrible ulcers in their mouth then they become immune compromised and so it's a whole cascade of things that happen in those patients”