OP Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 346 | Now I just want to eat. My jaw was 40% bottom removed and replaced with bone from my back but that was rejected agfter 22 days and I had emergency surgery because I hemoraged and lost so much blood they had to give me blood and then they just never replaced my jaw. I can swallow now but my teeth do not meet and cannot chew. Is there any hope? Anybody had this old fashioned surgery these days?
Partial mandibulectomy and neck dissection 2/3/07. T2NOMO. Had 14 hour operation which included reconstruction of jaw. Reconstruction failed. Some radiation, no chemo. |