At the SCC, disease complications including pneumonia as well as oral complications before and after cancer treatment have been prevented and alleviated at the Division of Oral Surgery since the day of opening in 2002. Oral care has always been a part of cancer treatments at the SCC.
In 2006, collaboration between the SCC and the Shizuoka Prefecture Dental Association started promoting “the Shizuoka Model,” which is a system allowing cancer patients to take oral care at the local dental clinics before and during cancer treatments. This medical and dental cotherapy system initiated by the SCC went spreading around the country, which led to adding a new item “perioperative management of oral function” in the healthcare services provided by health insurance at the revision of medical service fee in April, 2012.
