Supporting Member (50+ posts) Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 62 | Hi all, My teeth were pretty good before treatment but about a year afterwards, one day a tooth just broke off. That was the beginning. I'm now several teeth lighter, with one permanet bridge and one partial. I have three dentists, a cancer dentist, the root canal dentist and an oral surgeon. They advise me that one day they will all be gone (the teeth, not the dentist, lol) but we want to keep them as long as we can because they say I won't be able to wear dentures due to the lack of saliva and will need implants. Being el cheapo and not wanting to spend the money on implants plus vain enough to not want to run around without teeth, I'm doing everything I can to keep them as long as I can. I'm proud to say I still have sixteen and wonder why I get charged the same price for a cleaning as the guy with 32. What's with that?? Anyway, getting to my question.....I've spoken with the HBO guys and one guy actually told me that it would greatly improve my saliva. Is that true?
DX 6/05 Rt Tonsil SSC advanced to lymph node. Stage 4b. RND, took tonsils, strips off the back of tongue, throat and nose. 19 lymph nodes removed only 1 bad. Once healed, 7 weeks of treatment including 35 IMRT, 7 Cisplatin, 7 Erbitux and 35 nasty Amophostine. Almost 11 yrs out now. Woooo Hoooo!
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