Actually there is a "cure' for dry mouth caused by radiation and I know from bitter personal experience. The "cure' is to have extensive surgery and even more radiation so that you cannot swallow at all. Once that happens, your formerly bone dry mouth will be awash with mucous and since not a drop of the meager saliva you do produce will go anywhere, your mouth will fill up constantly so much that you cannot even speak with spitting every other sentence.
All things considered, I wish I had "dry mouth" again. The water bottles and Biotene mouthwash in spray bottle were doable in mitigating the dry mouth Bu then what do I know since according to NIH guidelines, I guess I am not even a survivor having not been free of Cancer for 5 years. wink
Charm
Charm

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65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

Passed away 4-29-13