OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 53 | Good Evening Friends!
It has been almost three years since my last surgery (Partial Palatectomy) and I have been experiencing a lot of food leaking into my nasal cavity when I eat. I have only 6 teeth in the left upper jaw and all other upper teeth have been removed due to the initial and recurrent tumors in the gum tissue of the right upper jaw. I have done pretty well with eating enough solid food to stay healthy, but the issue of food in my nasal cavity makes eating with others very difficult. I can not have the flap surgery to close my palate as the prosthodontist says he can not make a prosthesis with teeth if the flap is installed. I am grateful to be living a full life in spite of this 11 year cancer journey, but if there is a prosthodontist out there that can help with my complicated situation, I would love the name and location!
Thank you!
Teacher Karen
DX: SCC of right maxillary alveolar ridge, 9/2010.
Surgery 11/2010, removal of 4 teeth and gum.
Surgery 11/2012, removal of 3 teeth and gum.
IMRT 1/2013-2/2013
Surgery 1/2015 retromolar trigone resection; removal of 1 tooth and gum.
Surgery 10/2015 left modified radical neck dissection, inferior parotidectomy, external carotid artery resection.
Cetuximab based chemoradiation 64.8 Gy to resection bed.
Surgery 6/19/2018 Right inferior maxillectomy, bilateral low palate resection
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