Thanks, Christine. He already had 30 dives of hyberbaric chamber therapy about 18 months ago, before he had the tooth (well, it was two teeth) extracted. He said it energized him, but I don't really know if it had any affect on keeping the bone from dying.

I'm concerned that this infectious disease specialist is just going to slow things down and it really irked me that he told my husband that it is "horribly disfiguring surgery."

Our head and neck surgeon, who I trust implicitly, said we could try it, but that it's probably not going to change the outcome and John would still need surgery and by the time John finished the IV antibiotics, more of his jaw would be compromised.

I'm scared of the surgery. Well, I'm scared every day of what John will look like after the surgery and how he will function. HOw do you get over being scared?