Brian, David, Jerry, Debbie, Dell, Christine,

Thank you all so much for your feedback. AFter today's events, I called my dentist and asked for a new referral. When I told her assistant what happend, she was stunned and out of words.

I called the oral surgeon's office last week and asked why I wasn't given anesthetic. I could hear in the nurse's voice that she was suprised (she was not the one that assisted on me). She said there was no way I could have had the biopsy done without a local anesthetic. "You would have been screaming your head off." As you know, it's hard to scream with a scapel in your mouth. She spoke with the doctor, but he didn't talk to me or call me back.

I made an appointment today for next to go over the results and maybe get the stitches out. I was thinking of having my regular dentist take them out.

Then the mail comes. The doctor is a complete bonehead, in my opinion. They mailed a copy of the pathology report to my house! No warning, no please call us to discuss, etc. etc. Based on me and the internet, it sounds like it's maybe pre cancerous, but mostly just chronically irritated tissue and fungual infection.

It says the buccal mucosa is hyperparakeratosis, microvesicular mucositis and cadidal colonization.

So once I get the new referral, I'm having all the tests transferred and go from there.

Thank you again for sharing your knowledge with me.