Please help....My husband has completed 17 dives and his 20th will be on Thursday. His surgery for the extractions and 8 implants is scheduled for 4/30 which is 10 days after his last dive. The HBO clinic he is going to is telling us that the Marx protocol calls for surgery to take place within 5 days of the last dive while our oral surgeon says to stick to the protocol of 20 before and 10 after and that the elapsed time does not matter. I have tried to find the answer but I thought some one might now the answer to this. We dont have insurance and have paid the HBO clinic close to $8K already and they want another $1800 for 5 more dives. We may be living on the streets soon but he will have a nice set of chompers. lol


Traci
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Spouse to Lew (59)(5 family members DX)
SCC IVA/T1N2M0 BOT DX 9/08 /Tonsillectomy(cl)/ TX 12/08 (TPF)x2 /RT x35 w 7 wkly (Taxol, Carboplatin, Erbitux) Finish 4/09 / Port /no peg lost 105lbs/ 2/10 CT clear/HBOT x30/all teeth out and implants placed
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