Thanks to Brian and Eileen for their replies. Gordon is seeing a dentist on Thursday to have a biopsy to see whether the tooth needs to be extracted or whether a root canal will suffice.

That I guess will determine how we proceed next.

My next question is do most people after having HN rads tx go to a oncology dentist?

Norma Steele/Husband, Gordon, dx 1/17/06 w/ SCC secondary, left neck nodes mass, occult primary. Started chemoradiation 2/17/06, completed 4/5/06 (Weekly Cisplatin & 39 IMRT rads tx) In addition, I am a 9 yr breast cancer survivor.