K--PLEASE do not wait 3 months! If you can see it with your eyes, they can test it somehow. There are all sorts of biopsy methods available. I have had part of my hard palate removed, along with my right maxilla (upper jaw and teeth) because my dentist did not recognize my cancer and it was allowed to continue to grow for months. He did not give me cancer, but my surgery would have been less destructive if he had A. recognized it and B. moved faster in diagnosing it.

Please don't wait. Go to an ENT immediately, and even better, go to the Head and Neck department of a cancer center, where they see lots and lots of this. They will give you an appointment quickly, and with the proper specialist, likely one of their ENT's.

Colleen--T-2N0M0 SCC dx'd 12/28/05...Hemi-maxillectomy, partial palatectomy, neck dissection 1/4/06....clear margins, neg. nodes....no radiation, no chemo....Cancer-free at 4 years!