 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | A so called dental oncologist also at UCSF advised me to have ALL of teeth pulled, which I flatly refused to do. Three years later I still have all of them and NO gum disease.
I did go the distance with dental hygiene however:
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Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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