Head & Neck Cancer Support Group

I want to discuss teeth. I'm on stage two of a dental plate making process (partial metal denture). I lost my top front teeth in...

I was told to have 6 compromised teeth removed for treatment of Head and Neck cancer. I was told it was to help accommodate robotic...

My entire lower right jaw was taken out in August to remove a cancerous tumor adhered to jaw bone. Jaw was replaced with my fibula...

My mom had oral cancer and follow up radiation 6 years ago. She has dementia and it has been hard to make sure she looks...

Hi there. I am ten years out from base of the tongue and throat cancer. I have been filling my teeth for all these years...

we had a meeting with the radiation dept. they said it was best to do any dental work before radiation. so off to the dentist...

I am a year out from radiation and chemo for tonsil cancer. Treatments followed two surgeries, the first was biopsies and tonsillectomy. I was intubated...

In cases of radiation to the jaw resulting in Osteoradionecrosis (radiation bone death) or Ameloblastoma or similar growths on the mandible, reconstruction surgery is sometimes...

Many of us have this problem. Three years after RT and lots of talks by oncologists at our meetings and I'm still learning new details...

I’m an 87 year old who finished 35 rounds of radiation and 6 chemotherapy sessions to attack stage IV squamous cell cancer near my vocal...

Hi everyone. I’m new and here on behalf of my mother who was diagnosed with sinus cancer last year. She had surgery in November 2020...

Hi, my husband is 2 weeks in his radiation and chemo for tonsil cancer. He has seen our family dentist and he is not given...

I was “cured” from my stage 4 non-small cell Nasopharyngeal carcinoma after 8 months of living hell treatments in 2012. After the forth dose of...

I was irradiated for cancer of the nasopharynx in the mid-1970s. Over the years it has gotten increasingly difficult for me to swallow food and...