I'm back from the visit with the surgeon - thankfully they did manage to fit me in first thing this morning. I was the second patient of the day! Sure paid to be waiting on their steps when they opened. I did have to be pushy and insist that the doctor wanted to see me first thing - but that worked. I'm learning that I need to stop being so darned polite!

He was concerned about the ulceration and we got the biopsy done. The frozen section was negative and I'll now be waiting on the results from the fixed section. If it isn't cancer or dysplasia, he said it might be soft tissue necrosis. He told me not to get too excited about a negative result from the quick read - he said that he far prefers the results from the fixed pathology specimen and that the frozen reads are often inaccurate.

He didn't have much to say that was positive about the Velscope - doesn't sound like my dentist really knows what he is looking at with it. BUT - at least he conducted a thorough oral cancer screening exam and knew that something should be done about the ulceration in my mouth! I give him full credit for that.