You have every right in this world to be mad and scared. I know I was, and I had to wait 2 months until my surgery could be performed. While you are mad at the dental community, I was very mad at myself. I smoked and drank and was told in 1990 to stop both or I could be facing oral cancer. Guess what, I didn't and I had oral cancer. It has been almost two years and I still get angry at times.

I had 1/3 of my tongue removed, the bottom of my mouth removed and rebuilt and a modified radical neck dissection. I was very lucky as my lymph nodes had no sign of cancer, consequently I did not have RAD or Chemo.

Please feel free to email if you have questions or just want to vent.

Anne.

There are going to be some very trying times coming up; but, you can count on all of us that participate in this forum to keep you going.