Tongue reconstruction offers hope for oral cancer patients. (Upfront).

Journal of Dental Hygiene | January 1, 2003| | Copyright

Surgeons treating patients with mouth cancer often have one goal in mind--get rid of all the cancer. However, loss of tongue tissue can profoundly affect a person's quality of life. So surgeons at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are offering such patients new hope in the form of tongue reconstruction.

Lead researcher of the study Bruce H. Haughey, MD, an associate professor of otolaryngology, says this new tongue reconstruction technique works to remove the cancer while retaining more of the tongue's tissue than previous methods have ...

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