Utilization of COVID-19 testing for opportunistic screening of oral cancer

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¹ Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia; Department of Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Sana'a University, Yemen. Electronic address: mhelboub@gmail.com.
² Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, AlFarabi Colleges for Dentistry and Nursing, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Sana'a University, Yemen. Electronic address: sadali05@hotmail.com.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada. Electronic address: walid.al-soneidar@mail.mcgill.ca.

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Esam Halboub et al. Oral Oncol. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul:106:104775.

doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2020.104775. Epub 2020 May 6.

¹ Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia; Department of Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Sana'a University, Yemen. Electronic address: mhelboub@gmail.com.
² Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, AlFarabi Colleges for Dentistry and Nursing, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Sana'a University, Yemen. Electronic address: sadali05@hotmail.com.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada. Electronic address: walid.al-soneidar@mail.mcgill.ca.

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Keywords: COVID-19 testing; Opportunistic screening; Oral cancer.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declared that there is no conflict of interest.

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