Thanks for the responses and sorry for my delay.

My mom had her surgery last week and they were unable to replace the jaw bone with bone from the leg because the extensiveness of the decay in the jaw bone did not allow for a new bone to be attached. The back 4 teeth and the remainder of the lower jaw on the right side was removed. Fatty tissue from the thigh was inserted into this void where the jaw once was. She is recovering well from the surgery and the docators are happy with her progress. Granted her lower right jaw is gone but the doctors feel that she will be able to open her mouth and begin eating, on one side, again in several months. Therpy is to begin in six weeks and hopefully at some in the near future she will be able to get rid of the feeding tube. This has been a long two years but I think that we may have reached the crest and that things are beginning to progress in a positive direction. Its a long battle.

Thanks