Study promoting coffee drinking benefits needs more research, says dentist

Dec. 17, 2012

New research says coffee drinkers have a lower chance of death from oral cancer, but one dentist is still not ready to recommend coffee drinking to his patients.

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Recent research from the American Cancer Society states that heavy coffee drinkers may reduce their risk of dying from oral cancer by 50%, but Martin Hogan, DDS, Loyola University Health System, hesitates to give his full support.

Dr. Hogan says: "I do not recommend that my patients drink coffee. The study does suggest benefits, but I would like to see more studies done to prove this correlation."

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