Dear Eileen,Mark and Everyone, I'm afraid the top teeth are gonna be history,have had a long battle with peridontal disease-teeth are ok but the gums gotta go,lol.I could probably kept them if I had more time and money but my insurance only pays for 1500 dollars worth of work a year,and I don't know when I'll be back to work.My radioligist told me (I was not real willing to part with them) that he would continue treatment whether I had them pulled or not.I'm depressed about it but am working on acceptance-minor loss it this game. On the up side the rad dr.and the chemo dr. are expressing lots of confidence that this base of tongue tumor will shrink and go away with no futher surgery.Yipeee!So on to chemo and radiation.Thank you for writing a reply. Keeping Hope,Sue