Hello,
I hope it is ok to jump right into things, but I would like some advice from you guys. I am an otherwise healthy 28 year old male that has recurrent oral dysplasia. Never smoked,never a heavy drinker and no I have never partaken in the betel nut. I have had 8 biopsies that have run the gambit from mild dysplasia to a recent partial glossectomy with several severe dysplastic spot. I have been going to a head and neck cancer center for the past 4 years. While I am thankful that it has never turned to Stage 1 or worse, I would also like to explore other treatment other than getting my tongue cut on every 3-6 months. I am looking for recommendations for centers of excellence that might specialize in precancerous lesions and prevention.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Have you looked into clinical trials? If you go to www.clinicaltrials.gov and use "precancerous mouth lesions" as your search term, you'll find a number that are recruiting, in various locations across the country. You have to scroll down into each study to find the locations -- a study may be sponsored by, say, M.D. Anderson, but patients might be recruited for that study through other medical centers as well as through MDA.

The National Institutes of Health, just outside Washington, DC, does clinical trials -- and depending on the trial, travel costs and/or accommodations could be covered. You could get in touch with LindaNIH, a research nurse at NIH who was recruiting OCFers for a dry-mouth study a few months back -- her contact info is in her profile.

Welcome to OCF!