[QUOTE=ItsIn;1886358]HPV is nothing new. Besides MD, there is another celebrity who got mouth cancer and he too claimed it was due to DATY. What's important in both cases is they were in stable relationships. There was some article mentioning that the chances of contracting mouth / throat cancer is more for men above 40 but in both the above cases even their women were above 40 so could be the HPV concentrations are higher in women above 40.
Dental Dams could be an option:
[URL]http://teenhealthsource.com/sex/dental-dams/[/URL][/QUOTE]Thanks for sharing info on Dental Dams. Very helpful and need of the hour. I am not sure who the other celebrity was but from what I gathered about MD, he was dating a lot of women. Having said that, media is known to be inaccurate. I do know one thing that until Catherine Zeta Jones hunkered him down with ol' chain & ball, he was quite a rock star!
HPV also has to do with lower immune system. I suppose people over 40 may have lower immune system and hence your point is valid about more chances of them getting it. I also saw on one of the interviews that there is a vaccine for HPV that one can take to reduce the chances. It was recommended in children before puberty. I don't know if anyone has more information on what it is called, whether it is available in Mumbai and where is it administered. Is getting a vaccine / immunization able to prevent one from contracting it should one inadvertently comes in touch? What are the side effects?
Its great that Seniors on this forum take interests in serious issues that put an end to invaluable gift given to a human being.