[quote=Sthompson17]I did have a partial glossectomy, did everything go well with your husbands surgery?[/quote]It went fine -- he was lucky in that the excisional biopsy had clear margins, so no further cutting was needed. (That biopsy was done by a general ENT, since cancer hadn't yet been diagnosed.)

Once my husband got the definitive diagnosis of SCC, he started going to a head/neck cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins, a top CCC about an hour from our home. The doc at Hopkins determined that no additional treatment was needed, and husband was seen regularly every few months, with greater intervals between appointments over time. He also gets checked with a VELscope on a regular basis by his dentist.

Over the years he has been referred a time or two by his dentist to the oral surgeon who did the initial biopsy -- each time it has turned out to be a minor inflammation of some sort, but better to be safe (and get it cut out and examined) than sorry.