Your experience is especially important to me here. My dentist (who does my cleanings) cleaned my teeth in Jan and missed the large tumor in my tongue/I'm sure it was smaller than but I think it would have been pretty easy to spot if your hands were in my mouth. I discovered it June 5 and it is a T3. Now, I'm not going back to play the "who's to blame" game, but I have since switched dentists. I would like to go to my old dentist and tell her what happened and make a plea for her to do more thorough examinations. I just feel some sort of moral responsibility for her future patients. I realize that she may get very defensive, but I think she needs the info about what happened to one of her patients. What do you think?