Doctors are expected to diagnose 55,000 people with oral cancer in the U.S. this year, with 10,000 predicted to die from it, according to the experts at UT Health San Antonio.

SAN ANTONIO – Origins Dentistry is a new dentist office that was built in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. And any small business knows the difficulty of starting up, but starting in the current economic climate adds more obstacles, so Origins Dentistry had to adapt. “Everything is different and dentistry is no exception,” Dr. Babak Najafi, periodontist at Origins Dentistry said. The office was in mid-construction when the pandemic hit, so a pressure room was specially built to essentially vacuum out germs and bacteria. “We went above and beyond the guidelines by incorporating a negative pressure room, which is an airborne infection isolation room inside an office, which is technically a hospital grade facility, " Najafi said.