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1. Chemo really has no bearing on damage to teeth. However, if you do not have saliva or constant dry mouth, that is prone to cause more decay to your teeth. Your mouth has to stay moist to help eliminate the cavity causing germs.2.. Chemo really has no bearing on damage to teeth. However, if you do not have saliva or constant dry mouth, that is prone to cause more decay to your teeth. Your mouth has to stay moist to help eliminate the cavity causing germs. 2.
Best Answer: The short answer is that they don't differentiate between cell types. This is why there are side effects. There are a variety of different mechanisms that the chemo meds employ, down-regulating certain proteins from being made, binding certain receptors to trigger cell death, etc. You hit it when you said the chemo meds mostly target rapidly dividing cells (or highly metabolically active cells.) And we're able to be relatively tissue specific too, so different drugs have affinities for different tissues. (That's why chemo for lung cancer and chemo for prostate cancer, for example, are very different protocols.) And the more we learn about how cancer cells work in the body, the more we're able to develop new tools to address them.