Hello Midwestwife. I am preparing to set a date to have the same jaw surgery from ORD. I live in Lisbon,OH and my surgeons are Dr Eric Lamarre and Dr Robert Lorenz at the Cleveland Clinic. I had surgery there in May 2015. They removed dead bone from my left jaw, cleaned remaining bone, then too vessels and tissue from my upper left leg, covered the bone with it and hooked the vessels to vessels in my neck. Also at this time they found my jaw bone was broke and had to put in a titanium plate. Well the bone is too far gone and this didn't help much. I have been on anti biotics every other month for 2 1/2 years because the infection just won't quit. I am in constant pain.I was given the choice before that surgery as to which way I wanted to go and both these Drs suggested the whole bone replacement but I took tissue and vessel surgery because I was afraid of the whole bone replacement.. Now it has to be done. I will be speaking to Dr Lamarre on Monday or Tuesday (Oct 10,11, 2016) to get test started for this surgery as I want to be back on my feet before next spring. I really recommend these two Drs. they are very informative in explaining the procedure and answering questions and are very very good with what they do. I'm not sure where you live but it takes me about 1 1/2 hrs to get to the main campus. If I can help wiyh anything, please let me know. I was DX in May 2008 with stage 4 BOT with nodes on the left side of my neck. I did chemo and rads then. No surgery then. Good Luck Randy


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