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Dentures plus implants after radiation
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@lanig Keep in mind, all those you have involved in these issues likely have limited to zero experience in cancer treatment and damage from same in dental damage. And I mean all including the oncologist. The question to ask is what the specific experience these professionals have in dealing with your specific needs. Everyone and I mean everyone involved in my care had zero previous experience with radiation to the mandibles and teeth. This should explain why they know not what they are doing.
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@hrhwilliam so true .. there is the dentist side looking on from a dentist perspective, and the oncologist looking on from a cancer survivor perspective. Prior to starting radiation, the dental clinic in PMCC handled all my dental cares, but after treatment I went back to my regular dentist - but, when I required implants in upper front, my oncologist said NO, but my dentist said YES - I had them communicate with each other --- I ended up with implants !!
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@hrhwilliam GOOD comment. I also am reading careful the responses. My surgeant who did the cancer removal on my tongue also has a dental degree. Sees many patients with this issue and the consequences of dental work after surgery. It is not good. My dentist has a different view than my surgeant and is looking to move ahead with normal dental procedures, ignoring the concerns I, and my surgeant, have on post radiation dental work. I am in the. prcess of learning all I can---but take the approach that minimal dental work is the better way to go. I will live with 5 missing teeth.