Hi Audrey sorry not had a chance to reply earlier. I found August account interesting. As you are aware like August I have had extensive surgery to the top of my mouth and surrounding area. My concern has been in trying not to scare you before you had your results. However it seems like you are going to have surgery. I would like to give you some insight into my surgery and post problems, which might help come to terms.

My tumour was on the left side of my face and the hard palate The only way the surgeons can get to a tumour is by coming from the outside, they made an incision from my left ear across the base of my eye and down the side of my nose to the centre of my lip. The Surgeons had to remove all the bone in the left check my top jaw and palate, which included all the soft tissue. The Plastic surgeon then had the task of repairing the damage. He used my right leg for his parts. Yes my Fibula is now in my mouth; the Fib was used for the reconstruction, as were muscle and blood vessels from the right leg. I have a new blood supply from my neck to the mouth. Disfigurement yes I have two very large and horrible scares on my right leg. But unless you look really close you cannot see the scare on the face (My wife and I can see it if we look hard, everyone else has asked were did the surgeon cut?). I should point out that the whole operations took 17 hours (I was under general anaesthetic for 17 hours)

Post Op days: I was in Hospital for 14 day. I was never in what I would call pain, discomfort yes but not pain. Something you should be aware of you might have an obturator this is a plastic plate that acts as you palate (I