About OralCheck

Who built this

Ian Harris

Founder · Predental student, UW–Madison

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OralCheck was built by Ian Harris, a predental student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I care a lot about community health and finding ways to actually make a difference with the knowledge I'm gaining in school.

A few years ago I was diagnosed with a chronic health condition that has significantly affected my day to day life. Going through that taught me how much your health can sneak up on you if you're not paying attention. It also showed me how important it is to have access to good information and to not brush things off. That experience is a big reason I want to go into dentistry and why I built this.

I really believe that keeping your community healthier and more informed, even just one person at a time, is worth something. Oral cancer is one of those things that a lot of people have never even thought about, and it's so much more treatable when it's caught early. I wanted to build something that could help with that.

How it works

• Your answers stay on your device. Nothing is saved to a server. No accounts. No tracking of responses.
• Scoring is educational, not clinical. Each answer contributes a weight derived from published risk data. The total maps to a risk tier, Low, Moderate, Elevated, or See-a-Dentist-Soon.
• It is not a diagnosis. OralCheck can suggest you should talk to a clinician. It cannot tell you whether you have cancer.