Michael: I will try some possible ideas on you for your questions. They may or may not apply.
1. After a surgical biopsy there will we scar tissue forming. It's harder than the normal mucosa, though over time may revert back to its original texture 2. The redness can just be inflammation, from the original problem or from the surgical procedure. 3. IF you need a treatment plan developed, the doctors that you see will surely do this in short order after your diagnosis. But before then, IF you have something really bad, they will do more testing to determine how far along the problem is. This will include things like MRI's CT's, etc. Then after that they can stage the problem. After all staging is about extent, and without the testing they won

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.