The bone in his new jaw is from his fibula bone in the leg so the titanium plate, they tell us, is no longer needed now that John is almost a year out from surgery and the bone is growing normally. They want to just remove the titanium plate since it's infected and it's no longer needed.

We're on Medicare, but I might try to call our supplemental insurance to ask about physicians.

I'm basically just trying to find out if anyone else has had an infection in the titanium plate and had it removed--what kind of success, if any, have you had.

Thanks so much.