Well I will definitely be watching the area closely. He took a pretty good portion of the suspect area. Tongue was in pretty bad pain for a week afterwards. I have not received a copy of the report yet, just a phone call from an aid at the office telling me it was not cancerous. I do have two fillings that hit the area and I will be asking the dentist to correct them as I have no other risk factors that I know of. Rarely drink, dont smoke/dip, etc. The one other symptom I had with the white patch was that the left side of my tongue would become irritated by certain things, like mouth wash and tooth paste. Now it was very mild, but noticeable. I'm waiting for the tongue to heal completely to see if this continues. I appreciate all of your responses, and knew I'd get some good information here. I just know that this disease is nothing to mess around with after watching my aunt deal with it.