This was the stark message delivered to the Minister for Public Health Dame Andrea Leadsom at a private meeting last week.
She was told there were 3,000 deaths caused by oral cancer in 2021 - a 46 per cent hike in ten years.
Campaigners say a shortage of available dentists is partly to blame.
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