Hi Tony, I guess I expect a dentist to be familiar with oral tumours in the gum, mucosa, tongue and lips- I'm not confident that areas beyond there will be in their focus. My dentist is from Vietnam and I know she spends at least 2 months every year donating her services to the poor in her country and statistically Asian men have a high rate of oral cancer so I was surprised that she didn't recognise a large tumour in my gum. When u googled it after the peridontalist said what he thought it was, the pictures were glaringly obvious!! Classic oral tumour.
Anyway after a second round of surgery with chemo and 35 radiations I'm recovering well but as I said you need to be fairly tough minded about your experience and keep focused on moving forward. Oh and not be too knocked back when your employer calls you in off sick leave to make you redundant :)) amazing?!!
How are you going?? What is happening for you and how are you travelling at the moment??