Jerry....You mentioned that if money is no object, implants are the most desirable solution for me. I am fortunate to have good insurance, and am also fortunate to have a generous husband with a comfortable income, so that issue is not a limiting factor, thankfully.

I guess I will have to give the implants more consideration.

Have you had to have any speech therapy because of your partial glossectomy? Or were you able, with your own professional training, to adapt your own speech?

Just curious: Did you find your own lesion, or did another dentist discover it?

The area of my lesion had been tender for quite a long time, even before I began going to this dentist. I can't imagine that it was cancer for that long, though the literature no longer gives credence to irritation developing into cancer.

I smoked 37 years ago, in college and shortly afterward, and not since. That seems like a remote causative agent, though my surgeon says that he feels that that long-ago smoking was the cause, rather than genetics, since there is absolutely no cancer in my family.