I can't name someone specifically to send you to. But as you well know, its important to see someone that understands the issues that you might have because of your treatments. While traveling to see someone talented seems a good idea, I'd like to have someone that in the first month after the surgery could easily see me to follow up or deal with anything that wasn't behaving as expected. That would be tough if you traveled out of state to do this. There's a lot of good oral surgeons in SoCal, so you likely don't need to go far to find someone that has the right background, and this isn't complicated to do. But it could get complicated if your body decides not to heal up properly. Picking an oral surgeon at UCLA that is tied to the cancer center might be a thought.


Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.