Thanks for all who responded regarding my question of Trismus. Seems I was mistaken following almost 3 hours at the oral surgeon's office today. I had an appt. for next week but got a call this morning that they could see me this afternoon, last minute, and I took advantage of it. I met with the oral surgeon who extracted the wisdom tooth in November and long story short, it seems as though I have the early stages of Osteoradionecrosis after all. Even after going through 30 hyperbaric oxygen treatments it seems that I have fallen into the "somewhat less than 5%" who still might contract the problem even with HBO treatments. Xrays were compared, today's with mid-November's, and the Doc pointed out to me the visible change for the worse in the bone structure where the wisdom tooth once lived. He went on to tell me that 8 of 10 oral surgeons would recommend 30 days on an antibiotic and then have another look but that he was one of the 2 of 10 who says let's attack it now. Bottom line, I am now scheduled for surgery next Tuesday for him to go in and do what has to be done.

It just seems that the "shoes keep falling" even after Tx but again I feel that all of this could have possibly been avoided if I had been screened orally last year prior to treatment. I would almost bet it would have been recommended that the problem wisdom tooth be removed at that time prior to treatment. For that reason I would again like to emphasize to everyone facing treatment to make sure that an oral/dental screening is done.

Bill D.