Sheldon, thanks. As far as I know, the ENT to whom he was referred by the oral surgeon has not asked for the original slides. Should my husband be calling to see if he wants them read by the lab be usually uses?

As for the surgeon's apparent casualness -- as it happens, before she went to dental school my dentist was a surgical nurse at the same medical center where this ENT was once chief resident. This center sees the very worst cases out there, she said, and she -- like Barb -- attributed his attitude to that.