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#54187 12-22-2003 08:42 AM | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | OP  Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 | I am wondering if anyone that has experienced osteonecrosis could comment on symptoms and what specialists were called upon to help?
Thanks
Mark
Mark, 21 Year survivor, SCC right tonsil, 3 nodes positive, one with extra-capsular spread. I never asked what stage (would have scared me anyway) Right side tonsillectomy, radical neck dissection right side, maximum radiation to both sides, no chemo, no PEG, age 40 when diagnosed.
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Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 33 | Mark,
With me, it all started with some painless bone loss under my back molar on the left side. Eventually the root became exposed and despite trying to save it with religious application of a Water Pik, the molar and the one next to it had to come out followed by 30 hyperbaric oxygen treatments. About six months after that, I noticed numbness and a lump on my mandible which kept getting bigger over the next several months and is now about walnut-sized. My next step is to head to Miami for a consultation with Dr. Marx for a hemi-mandibulectomy.
As far as specialists, The exposed root was noticed by my regular dentist who then referred me to an oral surgeon, who, in turn, referred me to the mandible reconstruction specialist in Miami.
Anything sound familiar?
2006 SCC T0 N1 M0; 2006 EBRT x 33, chemo x 3; 2010 Extraction 2 molars; 2010 HBOx30; 2011 Dx osteosarcoma of mandible; 12/20/11 mandibulectomy with temp. titanium plate; 1/31/2012 chemo x 4; 9/19/2012 Reconstruction of mandible with graft from hip and bone morphogenic protein
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