Hello Carpe:
A page or two back on your thread we discussed the Velscope and other early diagnosis tools currently marketed and that were planned to be used in your surgery (ie blue light). This morning I was re-reading some of our websites literature at the link below.

http://oralcancerfoundation.org/HPV/ocf-hpv-opinions.htm

From what I read, unless I misunderstand, our own foundation doesn't place much faith in any of these technologies. Now, it seems to me this information is circa about 2010, so maybe changes have occured since time of writing.

Also, if memory serves, at the time all this stuff was written for publication on the website an exhaustive process was used with confirmation by multiple experts in the OC field to insure that everything said was very accurate.

I would love for Christine, Paul and Brian Hill to opine on this.

Tony

Tony, 69, non-smoker, aerobatics pilot, bridge player/teacher, avid dancer (ballroom, latin, swing, country)

09/13 SCC, HPV 16, tonsillectomy, T2N0.
11/13 start rads, no chemo
12/13 taste gone, dry mouth,
02/14 hair slowly returning
05/14 taste the same, dry sinuses, irrigation helps.
01/15 food taste about 60% returned, dry sinuses are worse in winter.
12/20 no more sinus problems, taste pretty good