ya it kinda freaked Ron out when they told him that's what they were doing to him. He had nothing cracked or split. They went in that way, his cancer was under his tongue i gotta get the correct term here...sounds yucky but that's how they did his. He has a scar from ear to ear. they didn't take it off all the way just from his lower part. Sorry don't want to sound icky but that's what he had done. no cracking or splitting anything. the talked about that but it didn't happen that way