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Time to "brush up" on things...
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Nov 02, 2009 - 7:31 pm
I am 31 months post tx and just had to have some major dental work done. (well, it felt major to me). I had a root canal on my rear molar where my tumor was along with other work (sedation dentistry rocks!) They at first wanted to extract it, but I would have to go through 20 hyperbaric chamber treatments before the extraction and 10 post extraction. The extraction would cast around $400 and the chamber treatments would run $100,000.00! And if blue cross is an 80/20 plan I am on the hook for 20K. If THAT fails and gets infected, I will have to have my lower left jawbone removed and a leg bone grafted in. So, be sure to "brush up" and keep your teeth in mind even way down the road when you are "better"!!! |
Joined: Apr 2009
I am in bad shape for any dental work as I can’t open my mouth more then ½ inch, also can’t find any dentist he in Lafayette who known how to work on people who had Cancer. The last time I went to my Doctor he told me that when my teeth start to give problems and need to be removed more then likely I will have to remove the jaw bone as well.
I ask only one question, if they knew this before hand, why I was not told to have all these teeth removed before treatment. Makes you wonder!
Take care and hang in there.
Joined: Sep 2006
Following my intitial surgery, I underwent some extensive physical therapy, hondo, to eliminate trismus (mouth closure, basically) caused by the surg. This happened at the same time I was undergoing chemo and rads, so I am not sure I took complete advantage of it at the time, but even so, we were able to get my mouth to open from about 19mm to nearly 30mm (this is the difference between barely