| Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | At night, I brush my teeth with Biotene toothpaste and then apply the Prevident gel with my toothbrush. I then hop into bed and read for about an hour, swishing the stuf around occasionally and then spit it out.
I have the trays, but when I first started using them during radiation removing them was causing nausea, so I never got into the habit.
The dentist charges almost $20 for a tube of Prevident, but the pharmacy only charges $3 with my prescription plan (Medco).
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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