I am pleased with your results, and again, your doctor is right on. A brush biopsy is only the first tool. Even if it had come back positive for cancerous cells, their protocol reqiuires that the doctor do an incisional biopsy to confirm. So he is by the book right down the line so far. Oral Cdx, when they find dysplastic cells uses different , ambiguous wording in my opiinion. They say something there is not typical. It is usually some type of dysplasia which is the step between normal and malignant, when a cell is neither. Many women have dysplastic cells that show up on an abnormal PAP smear. This means that they REALLY have to watch things, maybe get their smears every 6 instead of 12 months, because you just never know when the two more genetic mutations are going to take place that will take the dysplastic cells over the edge to malignancy....if ever. Please keep us posted on your results. If he finds nothing, I would suggest that you still visit hiim one a year to have that area tested. In that way if anything develops down the road you will be catching it at it's earliest most curable stage. Just think of it as your annual PAP smear for your tonue!!

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.