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Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 34 | For anybody having problems similar to mine I have found out that my local dentist could take care of it. He looked at my lower jaw yesterday and saw that bone was protruding through the gum and irritating the side of the tongue. It was getting quite painful and felt bad (gritty) when I rubbed the tip of my tongue over the spot. He read some literature on radiation and the gums and told me that he would take a small grinder and grind away the protruding bone, No novacaine needed because there are no nerves in the bone. A big relief, my tongue thanked him as soon as he was finished, now I just have to wait for the gum to heal and grow over the spot which feels 100% better.
Murphy...
5/31/16 Partial Glossectomy
Right neck dissection
22 teeth extracted
Six weeks of radiation Ended 8/19/16
2/8/17 Biopsy of epiglottis-cancerous
35 radiation treatments to the throat, End 11/17/17
8/23/19 Tongue reconstruction, left radical neck dissection
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