No, I did not have any scans after surgery. I had 2 surgeries though. They removed the tumor on the first surgery but the pathology report said that the tumor was "very close to the deep excision line" so a second surgery was needed. On the second surgery, they took 7 frozen samples that all came back negative and then did a neck dissection and removed 30 lymph nodes that also came back negative. So, the cancer was gone after the first surgery. My tumor was 1.1x1x1cm.
Pretty small.
I am also young, 29, so my doctors also felt like I should not do radiation. If it had been high grade, they would have done the radiation.
I am six weeks out from my second surgery. I also had trouble brushing my teeth or getting anything other than a straw in my mouth. It will get better. It just takes a while.