"OCF Down Under" Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 404 Likes: 2 | Anita
That sounds very similar to the dramas that I was having. The gunk was weeping out from the suture line on a small area of the skin under my chin where the small metal plates are screwed in. The skin was so thin over that particular area of the plate and eventually is became exposed. It was only then that they realised it was the screw and that plate causing all the trouble and not the reconstructed bone or anything else.
Once that plate was removed during a very short surgery, everything improved, the weeping stopped and the skin finally knitted perfectly.
Karen
46 yrs: Apr 07-SCC 80% entire tongue removed,T4N1M0 Neck/D,Jaw Split, Trache 2 ops,PEG 3.5yrs 30 x rad,6 x Cisplatin, 30 x HBO Apr'08- flap Recon + ORN Mandibulectomy (hip bone to reconstruct jaw) Oct'08 1 Plate out-jaw Mar'09 Debulk flap Sep'09/Jan&Nov'10/Feb&Jun'11/Jan&Jul'12/Oct'13/April'14-More surgery
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