Hey Chris, the short answer is yes your taste buds will come back. How much and how soon is a little bit of a moving target but the board rule-of-thumb is that you should notice most of your taste back at about the one year mark. Mine were steadily improving up to about the two year mark, and my saliva production seems to have settled out after 3 years.

The being said, We all get blasted in different areas and have different reactions.

Kevin




18 YEAR SURVIVOR
SCC Tongue (T3N0M0) diag 06/2006.
No evidence of disease 2010
Another PET 12-2014 pre-HBO, still N.E.D.

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