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| Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 794 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | OP "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 794 | Malka, are you listening? I hope you are getting some of the info that you were needing. I am learning a lot, even though my surgery would be somewhat different. For you, it would be the same (though far less than Hacklene's!)
Hacklene, you must be quite a trooper! Thanks for sharing your story! XO
Colleen--T-2N0M0 SCC dx'd 12/28/05...Hemi-maxillectomy, partial palatectomy, neck dissection 1/4/06....clear margins, neg. nodes....no radiation, no chemo....Cancer-free at 4 years!
| | | | Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 | Yes, Colleen I am following this thread and am very encouraged by the responses.
My next appointment w. the ENT is the end of February. I am now going to call and request a consult at that time with the plastic surgeon who would be doing the reconstruction. Before that I will talk to Dr. Chiche my friend who is a prostodentist at LSU Dental school. Since it seems that dental work is most likely not going to be covered, I am going to ask if there is any program at the Dental School to which I could apply. I would like to hear more from others about dental replacement following reconstruction. What was done about replacement of teeth? How long before you were able to eat like a person with a full mouth of teeth?
I see that I forgot to ask about using the iliac crest as a donor site. Does anyone out there have experience with this??
Malka
SCC stage II Partial mandibulectomy w. neck dissection- July 2005. Renal cancer w. partial nephrectomy-Jan 2004. Breast cancer discovered in routine mammogram. Successful lumpectomy, sentinal nodes clear, RT only-2008 Reconstruction of mandible w fibula free flap-Jan 09. TORS removal of begnin pappiloma from esophagus-2010. Masectomy,rt breast 2013. Support OCF
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