Thanks for the reply and thanks for the kind words. I’m a fully disabled army veteran. I get a large majority of my hospital care through the VA Hospital Shreveport Louisiana, I live in a small town in north Texas. The way I found out about the referral from the in house pathologist to the oral pathologist specialist, was I got a notification on my medical records. I opened the email and read the notes. The record only stated consultation to oral pathologist and suspected cancer please expedite. Final report to follow after consultation. My initial dentist really didn’t think it was anything serious it took months for him to send me to an oral surgeon. Now I’m feeling like it should have happened sooner. I will look up the ccc, and maybe get a second opinion if the biopsy ever comes back. Thanks again for the reply!