New Delhi, May 17 -- justify;">Modern medicine has trained us to think in silos where the heart belongs to the cardiologist, the skin to the dermatologist and the mouth, somehow, is just the dentist's domain but biology does not work in compartments. In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Vidhi Bhanushali, CEO and Co-Founder of scanO, shared, "The oral cavity is one of the most information-rich regions of the human body. It is where immune changes manifest, where vascular health leaves clues, where nutritional and systemic disorders first take shape. To overlook it is to miss the beginning of the story. Often, the mouth registers what the rest of the body has not yet named."

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