Hi Laura,
I don't know anything about "filling tattooing" but the relationship between tobacco and oral cancer is well understood. He's just playing Russion roulette with it. I hope that this serves as a wake up call to quit a potentially deadly habit, if nothing else.


Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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