Hi all. My dad went to see his doctor yesterday. The doctor found 3 suspicious areas in his mouth. They decided to do pre-op test right away, and scheduled him for surgery on the 25th of this month to remove the titianium bar in his mouth-jaw that has been rejecting since August(last year). At first they thought the areas might be where the bar was rubbing, but they are not sure. Could these just be abcesses or something? They are going to biopsy these areas when they remove the bar. Should they have done that yesterday, so they would know next week, and if it was something bad they could take them out while they were in there? Why wait and do ANOTHER surgery? Also, he is in so much pain they switched his pain med to methadone. Huh? For pain management? Is this stronger or just different than the patches? Another thing I noticed is that he has started to sound like he is drowning in mucus. He is on mucinex and is spitting and has a suction machine. Could the mucinex make him produce more mucus than normal? Sorry for the thousand question post.