Good afternoon. I'm hoping someone can help me make sense of some info my mother recieved from the oral surgeon yesterday.

She is 1 year post-op for resection of squamous cell lesion on her soft palate. She has been unable to have an obturator fitted well enough to prevent reflux and speech changes.

Now the surgeon is recommending reconstruction using tissue from the roof of the mouth over the hard palate rotated back and attached to the soft palate tissue to cover the defect.

We have a lot of questions re:results of this surgery (swallowing & speech); recovery; why he would choose this approach rather than a forearm skin graft & probably a lot of other questions we don't even know enough to ask.

My mother is 75 yrs old and not a good surgical candidate so this is not an easy decision for her.

Any help would be greatly appreciated