Carol,
believe it or not we run across a few here who fail to do their followups. Myself personally I would see an ENT or my H&N surgeon before I went to an oral surgeon. I bite myself all the time. I didn't realize that the flap is so close where you can bite it. I was told, when that was an option, that there were few nerves in the muscle tissue that make up the flap, so it's probably easy to bite and be unaware.

I am over 3 1/2 years out and I go every 4 months to the H&N surgeon and every 6 with the RO and the MO. The H&N guy's telling next year I will go every 6 months until 5 years and then annually asssuming, of course, that everything remains consistent.


Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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