I understand your anxieties, fear of the unknown, and concerns cause it's your life.

My throat was sore for a few weeks after being intubated, more hoarseness, sintitis, after some surgeries. The last three, they had to go through the nose due to my limited mouth opening, and loose teeth, but it goes away.

The oral tongue hurts. Mine is Tonsil, BOT, but needed two biopsies of the oral tongue, one a punch and other incisional, and stitched up. That hurt, so you're not alone in that department. Convey your thoughts about pain to your doctor. After I had surgery, and in recovery, they always asked if I wanted something for pain, and always said, yes, being I know what may come later..more pain. In recovery, they gave you morphine, and in the room or upon discharge, oxycodone, Percocet or similar, which I always took, so my pain was minimal, if at all. Each surgery is different too.

The donor tissue is called Alloderm. They put it over my carotid artery to protect it back in 2011 during a radical neck dissection, and heard of others having it in the oral cavity. It's used in other cancer, and situations.

http://www.lifecell.com/health-care...-matrix/allodermr-tissue-matrix-defined/

Finally, waiting is the worst, try to keep busy doing things you enjoy, listing to music, reading, exercising, whatever. For me, information helped me with the fear of the unknown, so I always read up.

Good luck