I think you are very wise to see the Dr. in Philly. If he is an oral cancer specialist then he will be able to give you good feedback. My Dr. in Charleston is like that. He and the senior pathologist have written articles on dysplasia and are very familiar with all the various ways mouth tissue can become altered.

My ENT here in Greenville will look at an area and say that it looks alright and just to keep an eye on it while my Dr. in Charleston can give me the percentage of likelihood that the specific area will become malignent. He's already found cancer when my doc here wasn't interested in biopsying. I'm scheduled for more surgery next week because the Charleston Doc thinks another area is questionable- one the ENT felt wasn't.

Go with your gut. I hope you are wrong and that you've just got a little recession happening. Congratulations on giving up tobacco!

Catherine, SCC floor of mouth DX 2010,unclear margins, PET scan clear, no chemo or rad,biopsy in 9/2010, 2nd excision 10/2010 didn't get all carcinoma in situ; partial gloss & excis. right floor 2/2/2011 margins clear. Part.gloss-10/5/2011 sev dys clean marg. HPV neg. Don't smoke or drink. SCC floor of mouth left side 4/2016. Dysp excis. rt palate 7/2017 Part gloss sev dys lat marg 2/2019 Part gloss free flap rt neck disc 5/2020 Part gloss bilat neck disc 7/2020 33 rad 3 cis.