Lolita -

I assume you mean leukoplakia. As you can see from my signature, my husband's dentist noticed a small leukoplakia -- basically, it's a white patch -- on his tongue and sent him to an oral surgeon for a biopsy.

Here's how the founder and executive director of OCF, Brian Hill, replied when I first asked about leukoplakia a year ago:
[quote] Leukoplakia is a PRE-cancerous condition that does not always move completely into malignancy. Dysplasia are those cells which are no longer normal, but they are not really malignant yet...an in-between state, so to speak. Dysplasias also do not always go completely over to the dark side, but they are a step in that direction... and having them removed, or watched very regularly is prudent. Dysplastic leukoplakias can often return after surgical removal, many times done with a laser, sometimes via a blade excision. Keep an eye on things even after the removal from now until forever. [/quote]In my husband's case, that initial biopsy showed moderate dysplasia (abnormal cells, but not yet cancerous), though a more thorough excisional biopsy (which removed it all) a month later showed it had moved into very early stage cancer. He has been checked regularly by an ENT at a top cancer center since then, as well as by the ENT who did the excisional biopsy.

Just a suggestion: So that your posting doesn't get lost under someone else's topic, start a new topic to ask a new question. It's easy -- just click on New Topic at the top of the page.

You'll also learn a lot by using the two search engines. The one at the top of each of these pages (in the center) searches the message boards; be choose to "Search All Open Forums" to get the greatest number of results. At the bottom of each page, toward the right in the dark gray area, is a Search button that links to the search engine for the main part of the Oral Cancer Foundation website. The information there includes a good overview of oral cancer, along with the latest news articles, scientific papers, treatment options, etc.

Please let us know the biopsy results. There are many people here who have been where you are now.

All the best,
Leslie