I don't have a new tongue, I never lost any tongue tissue. The cancer was merely lasered away it was so superficical, but the lasered area ended up completely adhereing to the floor of my mouth and was totally 'anchored' something which the surgeon did not expect. (I scar very easily). Six months later he went in and un-achored my tongue and that's when I got a rather large (apparently) skin graft. (I may have lost some tissue then??) I only have a small area on the top edge of the graft that hypergranulates as it gets caught on my teeth all the time.

I really wish this forum had photos!!

I have been beside myself since starting this journey a year and a half ago trying to find out if my healing after each surgery was normal. Without pictures to compare a normal lasered area from what I was experiencing, or to see a typical skin graft of the tongue, I had no idea if I was healing normally. Sadly my healing apparently wasn't normal but 30 days after my first surgery, it was too late to do anything, anchoring had set in, despite contacting my surgeon to have him check it out earlier. I was denied an earlier appt. 30 days is the norm.

I have googled the hell out of my computer to look for pictures or information on the typical healing process for the laser glossectomy I had and came up empty handed and I again looked for images to give me an idea of what a skin graft to the tongue might looks like when I had my 2nd surgery and again came up empty handed. Very frustrating.

My surgeon didnt want to 'de-bulk' as you put it. He calls it 'revision of graft' and that is the surgical consent I signed. He said he would trim out the peice and suture it back. That's it. He is a man of very very few words.