Christine,
Good luck on your surgery. My ENT mentioned when I asked him if I had another recurrence, that he would probably use a laser type surgery. After my first/second occurence, they did multiple biopsies around in my mouth (under anesthesia) and found most has some form of atypia (but not cancer) - then later (just before my rad was to begin on one side of my mouth - supposedly with much less after effects) they found a SCC on other side. Then they switched rad treatment plan to entire oral cavity. How about your rad treatment plan - was it entire oral cavity? did you have mucositis problems/pain, still there? trismus?
