Hey Guys!

Here is a very cool event being put on by CURE Magazine with our new friends at Dental Oncology Professionals of N. Texas' own Dr. Dennis Abbott, DDS.

DOPNT are supporters of OCF and are hosting a screening event for us for Oral Cancer Awareness Month! I've had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Abbott and Noberto Diaz, their PR man, and they are passionate about working with OCF and helping us raise awareness!

This is going to be a great opportunity to get questions answered from a specialist who's passionate about helping patients get through it and I hope you are able to participate!


https://www.facebook.com/events/197841053663971/

Thursday Noon-1PM Central Time (1PM ET, 10AM Pacific)


Strength in Numbers!

Eric, I have alot on my plate right now but I will try really hard to help with this. I did put a question out there already.

Thanks Christine you do so much for so many people, I have no idea how you do it! I'm just very thankful that you do!

Thursday is a crazy day for me too as I'm getting ready to fly out early the next day for San Antonio however Dr. Abbott and Norberto are really great guys and are excited to partner with OCF. I hope we have a good turn out, I've already seen questions posted by other OCF members so I think it will be.

Hope you are taking your laptop with you to help me keep up with the admin stuff over the weekend. I will be traveling too but will still be keeping an eye on the forum from Nashville.

laptop, phone, I be connected my dear friend and will be "on the case"

Christine and Eric, thank you both for all you do "behind the scenes" in addition to all the stuff we can see. I don't know how you do it but you are both such a blessing for the rest of us. Keep up the great work !

Agreed. Thank you to the 2 of you. When this weekend is over, you both need to rest!!! Promise????

so how exactly does a Facebook Chat work? is it everyone typing madly or is there a video link up somewhere? If I am going to drag my backside out of bed at 3am, I want to know EXACTLY what I am supposed to do before I apply my sleep addled brain to the problem

Eric, isn't this 12:NOON Central ?

[quote=EricS]Hey Guys!

Here is a very cool event being put on by CURE Magazine with our new friends at Dental Oncology Professionals of N. Texas' own Dr. Dennis Abbott, DDS.

DOPNT are supporters of OCF and are hosting a screening event for us for Oral Cancer Awareness Month! I've had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Abbott and Noberto Diaz, their PR man, and they are passionate about working with OCF and helping us raise awareness!

This is going to be a great opportunity to get questions answered from a specialist who's passionate about helping patients get through it and I hope you are able to participate!


https://www.facebook.com/events/197841053663971/

Thursday Noon-1PM Central Time (1PM ET, 10AM Pacific)


Strength in Numbers! [/quote]

Yep Kevin it's Thursday April 12th Noon Central Time hope you can participate!

lol, Karen, there is no video feed it's just a group chat with Dr. Abbott answering questions which you can ask before hand if you can't make it to the chat. I'm sorry about the 3am thing my dear, no way I'm close to cognitive at that time.

Kathy, I try not to make promises, especially ones I know I can't keep

These guys are great and really excited to help. Dr. Abbott and his team are the good ones that actually give a shhhhh...well you know.

So, dragged my backside out of bed at 3am in the morning to participate. Considering that I had never contributed to ANYTHING on the net this time 2 years ago, I wasn't quite sure what to expect as this was a new thing for me - a facebook event. So Dr Dentist was online ready to answer questions and they came thick and fast. Quite difficult to follow as I had to keep pushing the refresh button and the responses were obviously not in sync as there were a dozen questions between the question and the response from the expert. However, worth a look at the results as there are a lot of interesting questions and answers.

What I learned last night (or early this morning) was that dental problems are not confined to people who have radiation to head and neck. Many (dare I say most) people were suffering issues after chemo and radiation associated with cancers from all over the body. That dental issues are a sequalae of chemotherapy was a surprise to me.

I also learned about fluoride trays which do not seem to be an option in Oz. Whilst I learned about the concept from this forum I never knew how they worked and silly me assumed that they were like mouth guard thingies (got that part right at least) that needed to be worn overnight. As a result, I have never floated the idea with Alex knowing full well that this would never be agreed to. However, the trays are only for 5-10 minutes a day - which sounds much more doable for Alex. Another question to talk to the dentist about next month.

Would I do it again? Not at 3am!

However, I would definitely pre-ask my questions and make sure I read the follow up blog (that might be the wrong terminology)that summarises the issues and responses. I would recommend that others who may have dental concerns, also click on the link to the event that it is in Erics post and read all about it.

The entire chat is here:

http://www.facebook.com/curemagazine/posts/10150827645859809


Kevin