Cheek Reconstruction

Question: has any one had oral surgery due to cancer. Did you have reconstruction too.? we would like to know what to expect from this surgery and reconstruction. Jim has cancer of the buccal mucosa that is the area at the bottom of the mouth between the cheek and gum.

Answer: My grandma had bone cancer in her lower right jawbone. She had the bone removed and rebuilt using a section of bone from her lower leg. 3 years later, she is doing very well. She has a very notable scar from her chin down her neck but it looks very good for the amount of surgery they did. Her biggest complication was physical therapy for her leg; she had some kind of muscular problem afterwards that caused her toes to curl under. Her lip on that side of her mouth still droops and she feels very self conscious about eating and often covers her mouth while doing so. Her teeth are also exposed quite a bit on that side. She says she always has to have gum in her mouth because her mouth gets really dry now. And she complains about drooling uncontrolably at times.

Question: I am confused about a cancer diagnosis.? My father was diagnosed with a cancer called "squamous cell carcinoma". From what I have learned, it is a skin cancer that has spread from his chin, and into his mouth. As a result, he has had his tumor ridden jaw removed and reconstructed, a tumor removed from under the tongue, the tumor from the chin removed and another tumor removed from inside his cheek. He has had major reconstruction work done just 6 days ago. He has a massive amount of skin and muscle removed from his stomach and attached to his chin that goes inside his mouth, up under and around the tongue, no more lip. Every time a different doctor appears, they ask him if he has ever smoked or drank. He never did smoke, and drank 2 to 3 light beers 4 days per week. This is a skin cancer, why is he being asked if he smoked? They have virtually accused him of being a heavy smoker. So has the cancer developed because of sun exposure or is it because they assume he smoked? I know where he went to the pub that he got irritated from the smokers there, could it have been caused by passive smoking? Squamous cell carcinoma (sun or smoke)?

Answer: Squamous cell carcinoma is a skin cancer in that it starts in epithelium tissue. This tissue is part of the skin, but it also lines areas throughout the body and some glands are form from it There are several risk factors for this cancer. When it is found in sun exposed areas it is usually due to sun exposure. However, it is also found in the lungs, prostate, bladder and cervix and none of those areas are ever exposed to the sun. When it is found inside the mouth it is often seen in patients that are heavy smokers and drinkers, but it doesn’t mean the patient necessarily has to be a heavy smoker or drinker and there are other risk factors. It would not be professional or polite for a doctor to be accusatory when questioning a patient, but each doctor should be asking many of the same questions as it is part of getting a good history. Asking about smoking, drinking, drug use, family history and past surgeries are all pretty standard. Are you sure the cancer started on his chin and spread to his mouth? This would be an unusual way to spread, but not impossible, and it does affect his treatment and prognosis. I think they are probably not related at all. I also think the cancer on his chin was probably caused by sun exposure and the cancers in his mouth were most likely caused by HPV. I could be wrong, I’m not a physician and I know little about your father’s case, but I work with cancer cases everyday. You would know if I am correct or not by looking at his pathology reports. Best wishes to you both.

Question: std please read very important? About 4 months ago I noticed these lines of bumps on the headHead and face reconstruction Head injury Head lice Indications of head injury Radial head injury of my penisCancer - penis Curvature of the penis Penis care (uncircumcised) Penis pain (have no idea how long they'd been there). They go from the backBack pain - low Back strain treatment of the glans to about half way to the urethra hole. They're only on the top of the glans in the middle and gradually fade away from left to right. These bumps all line up, kinda like crop rows following the naturalNatural tears folds of the glans both horizontally and vertically (I can pull them apart and see 'normal' skinActinic keratosis Aging changes in skin Allergy skin prick or scratch test Allergy testing Basal cell carcinoma Birthmarks - red Cellulitis Circumcision Cutaneous skin tags Dry skin Fair skin cancer risks between them). They are slightly darker than the rest of the glans, or if I spend time looking at them (with eyesAmblyopia Blepharitis Bloodshot eyes Cataract - close-up of the eye Color vision test Conjunctivitis Contact lens electrode on eye Crossed eyes Dry eyes External and internal eye anatomy Eye and handsHand or foot spasms Hand tremor) they get kinda red. At that time 4 months ago, I had an STDStds and ecological niches doctor look at a larger bump at the end of one of these rows she said "It just doesn't look like a wartGenital warts Plantar wart Subungual wart Wart Wart (close-up) Wart (verruca) with a cutaneous horn on the toe Wart removal Warts Warts, flat on the cheek and neck Warts, multiple - on hands to me." She spend some time looking at the glans so I'm assuming she looked at the rest of them. They haven't noticably changed over that 4 month time. I haven't had sexBuccal smear Causes of sexual dysfunction Child abuse - sexual Delayed ejaculation Erection problems Female sexual dysfunction Inhibited sexual desire Orgasmic dysfunction Puberty and adolescence Rape Safe sex in over 9 monthss(protected). My question is - if they aren't wartsGenital warts Plantar wart Subungual wart Wart Wart (close-up) Wart (verruca) with a cutaneous horn on the toe Wart removal Warts Warts, flat on the cheek and neck Warts, multiple - on hands what else can they be? Can I get rid of these ridges of bumps? i got this of a guy on a site he has the same symptoms i have please help.

Answer: All of this clouds your question, I don't even know what's going on. I'd ask again without clutter. We know how to use GOOGLE.

Question: any feedback on whether this is legit? i was severely injured in a car wreck and have metal all in my pelvis and a rod through my femur.....i am in constant pain and cannot bend my angle ...and my knee only allows me to bend my leg in the shape of an L .....i cannot put my own shoe on cause i have ossification in my hip and cannot bend it foward or backward.....i cannot squat and sitting hurts tremendously for periods of time on account that i also broke my sacrum and coccyx which during reconstruction they offset about 2 inches to the right so its in my butt cheek now.....what im wondering is will i be able to get disability i am at the ALJ level and i appealed that in april of 07 .....its been 9 months and its allready gotten my former fiance to leave me....i have no resources or income and am living with family .....i cannot afford to go to doctors to get medical tests done which i need such as m.r.i. and nerve conduction studies......but do you think my SSI claim will be approved im 23 male

Answer: I'm assuming this happened just before your 22nd birthday. That makes this somewhat harder to get approved because they look at you for SSI and SSDI and each program though both run by the same government want you to qualify under the others program. But I do think that if you persevere - and it sounds like you have no other choice - you will be approved. Have you contacted your congressman that represent you? They can often get this stuff approved quickly when no one else can. If you were not at fault in the accident - they will be much more likely to be willing to help you. (Sorry, but it's true.)

Question: Would you spend £2million to get a face like this...? She has spent more than £2million altering her face only to emerge as a stark warning against too much cosmetic surgery. The 63-year-old has earned the nickname the Bride of Wildenstein for her obsessive approach to surgery which has left her with incredibly strange features. The ex-wife of late billionaire Alec Wildenstein has undergone at least seven face lifts and drastic eye reconstruction surgery and received collagen injections to her lips, cheeks and chin. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/art… Surely not.... That is the most frightening face I've ever seen. It's a brave man that'll wake up next to that in a morning!

Answer: Did she intend to look like Will Ferrell? That shot were she is leaning in to kiss that bloke...omg she looks like the lion from the wizard of Oz. How would you kiss a mouth like that? It must feel like getting your face hoovered.

Question: Why don't churches teach the following facts? Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Louisville, Kentucky Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: Jesus: Did He look Jewish or Aryan?? --------------------------------------… The Anglo-Saxon Jesus By Jason Robb, J.D. EDITORS NOTE: The term Anglo-Saxon in this article is used generically . The white race has kindred people who do not necessarily identify themselves as Anglo-Saxon. All white people are related by blood and share common ancestry. The term Anglo-Saxon therefore would be interchangeable with any word used for identifying those of our European kindred such as Germanic or Scandinavian (among others) For centuries Jesus Christ was depicted by Europeans as one of their own. Images of Jesus Christ whether in paint or upon stained glass clearly showed Him (including the apostles, His mother Mary, the women who labored for Christ, and his followers) as white. However, today there is an attempt to undermine the factual evidence that Jesus was white. Instead we are told that Jesus is a mixture of all races. Many modern artists attempt to portray Jesus with all of the various racial characteristics. The Judeo-Christian preachers today and their anti-Christ rabbi counterparts argue that Jesus probably had black, tight curly, perhaps even kinky hair. The historians and archaeologists of today, excluding the ones in the past, argue he would look like a typical "Israeli" in which he would look neither black or white, but a dark brown mixture of the two. The question is what did Jesus Christ really look like? The traditional view of Europeans hold that he had blond or auburn hair and blue or hazel eyes. His face was long with high cheek bones (note: The Shroud of Turin), and he was tall and muscular. This traditional view has been depicted in Western art for centuries such as in "The Pantocrator" or "Creator of All," a sixth-century mosaic. Now, however, many are saying that this white "view" of Jesus by Europeans was only a testament of the ancient racism of Europeans. This past Easter, when millions of Christians celebrated Jesus’ resurrection, scientists, historians, and Judeo-Christians collaborated to create a "new model" for Jesus, which aired around Easter on the Discovery Channel and PBS. Joe Zias, one of the leading archaeologists in Israel, who worked on the project, said, "in reconstructing this head, we are not claiming that this is exactly Jesus’ face, but we are trying to counteract all of those bad images of blond-haired , blue-eyed Jesus running around Hollywood productions. He continued and said, " we know he didn’t have long hair and it wasn’t blond. And he wasn’t blue eyed." How does he know that? John Dominic Crossan, a "scholar" based in Florida said, "this is a country of immigrants and now our ethnicity is changing once again. We have a growing population of Latinos and others. What will Jesus look like in the future? He certainly will look darker." Even Rev. D. James Kennedy, the Presbyterian pastor from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and T.V. evangelist said, "Nobody really knows what Christ looked like, and to a very real extent it is irrelevant… The important thing is that he is the Redeemer and Son of God". The problem with all these reconstructions of Jesus and these Judeo-Christian ministers such as Dr. Kennedy is it is relevant what he looked like. Jesus was the Redeemer - but to whom? (Note Matt. 1:23 and others) Although the description of Jesus in some respects is not important, such as his height, weight, or how long his hair is, what is important is that He was the Kinsmen Redeemer (Kinsmen: of the same blood) to a certain people – Israel, who now comprises the Anglo-Saxon -Teutonic and kindred people of Europe. And Jesus’ racial description identifies the people He belonged to. So in asking what Jesus looked like is actually asking what does the race he belonged to by physical birth look like? There is Biblical and historical evidence that informs us exactly what he (by race) looked like. And THAT is important. It is the reason the genealogy of Jesus is given in Matthew and Luke. BIBLICAL EVIDENCE Jesus was the direct descendent of Kind David and therefore the rightful heir of the Israel’s kingdom throne. In I Samuel 16:12, when Samuel went to anoint David to be the new King of Israel it states, "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy…" In Webster’s dictionary, ruddy is defined as … redness; akin to red; having a healthy reddish color. (Even Adam means to "blush" or " to show redness in the face." This identifies only one race. I’ll let you figure out which race.) Therefore King David would have been fair skinned with reddish hair. Not the typical dark Jew or Arab, as some are now being led to believe. (Some will cite Rahab (wrongly called a prostitute instead of the important position she held) and Ruth who are counted among the genealogy of Jesus - claiming that these two women of God were not Israelites and thus additional proof that Jesus was not racially pure. Those who make this erroneous claim have been deceived into believing that the countries in which these women lived characterize their race. It does not. Both women were Israelites and followers of Jehovah) HISTORICAL EVIDENCE The vast majority of the world is ignorant of the fact that there were actually eye-witnesses and written accounts of Jesus, His earthly father Joseph, and His mother Mary. Many of these written accounts are kept in the Vatican library, which describes what Jesus and Joseph looked like. These written accounts were compiled in The Archko Volume. In The Archko Volume, we can read where Gamaliel was sent by the Sanhedrin to interrogate Joseph and Mary in regard to the child Jesus. He says in regard to Joseph, "his hair looks as though it might have been dark auburn when young." Later, he talks about Jesus’ description. "His hair is a little more golden than hers (his mother Mary), though it is as much from sunburn as anything else… His eyes are large and soft blue, his eyebrows very large." This is a description of a people that does not represent the people we know as Jews today. This is not the description of Arabs, blacks, or any other type of people. This is the description of our ancestors – the white Europeans. Valleus Paterculus, a Roman Historian, met and interviewed Jesus and made a report to Pilate, who in return made a report to Caesar. Paterculus states, "One day in passing by the place of Siloe, where there was a great concourse of people, I observed in the midst of the group a young man who was leaning against a tree, calmly addressing the multitude. I was told it was Jesus… His golden-colored hair and beard gave his appearance a celestial aspect… " Lastly, as we can see, Jesus was a person who resembled a particular race of people. Only one race has blond, auburn, or red hair, with blue, green, and hazel eyes. All these characteristics identify the white race, the true Israel. However, as our nation becomes more Judiazed and non-white, no longer will our ancestors in the Bible be depicted as a reflection of us, but will be depicted as a typical dark mideastern Jew. Tom Roberts, editor of the Catholic Reporter said, "artists should feel free to reinterpret Jesus for each new era." The era that is approaching and coming upon us is a Jewish era, an era that does not reflect the traditional Christian morals and values of our people, but is an attempt to change the core values of our people in preparation of the one world church. The fact is Jesus Christ was a white man. He came to the lost sheep of the House of Israel as their Kinsman Redeemer. Can anyone of any race follow the teachings of Jesus Christ? Yes, but it doesn't make them kinsmen. It doesn't give them the authority to change the historical and correct image of Jesus' white racial background into their own. And saying that Jesus Christ is white doesn't make a person an evil hater any more than it would were they to say that George Washington or Queen Elizabeth is white. They are merely stating the facts. Back to top Michael S. Burks Site Admin Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Louisville, Kentucky Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: --------------------------------------… The following excerpt is taken from The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ: A Verse by Verse Exegesis, pages 279-280, by Pastor V.S. Herrell, which is available from HBPH, PO Box 130, Kodak, TN 37764. This excerpt regards Revelation 22:16: "I, Jesus, sent My messenger to testify these things to you over the Body Politics. I am the Root and Race of David, the bright and morning Star." Now Jesus affirms that the Messenger sent to John to reveal these things was indeed sent by Jesus, and identifies Himself as the bright and morning Star (cf. Numbers 24:17) and the Root and Race of David (cf. Isaiah 11:1). In saying He is the root and race of David, He is implying that He is both the source of David and the offspring of David. He is also saying that He is racially identical to David. This is important because both the Bible and history explicitly record a racial description of David. In the Septuagint, we read in I Samuel 16:12 of David (cf. I Samuel 17:42): "And he sent and fetched him: and his was ruddy, with beauty of eyes, and good in the sight of the Master. And the Master said to Samuel, Arise, and anoint David, for he is good." Here the word ruddyis translated for the Greek purrakos, which mean to have a ruddy complexion. The Hebrew word here is admoniy, a derivative of Adam, and of course Adammeans to show blood in the face, to blush or turn rosy. So the Bible says very clearly that David was white, for the Hebrew word adam and the description of ruddywere only applied to white men. Now Josephus also comments upon David, using slightly different words: "Now so soon as David appeared at his father's summons - a boy with golden blonde skin, with fiery eyes and in other ways handsome - " (Jewish Antiquities, VI:164). Here the words golden blonde are translated for the Greek xanthos, from which we get the English prefix xantho-, which means yellow. The Greek word meant a golden yellow, and when used of people it meant that they were blonde. When used of skin color (as Josephus explicitly does), it implies the golden yellow skin associated with blonde people. This means that the word was only and could only be used of people of White, Nordic stock. And of course, only white people are capable of having rosy colored cheeks, as the term adam and purrakos or ruddy implies. So when Jesus says that He was of the race of David, He is purposely contrasting Himself to the dark, swarthy-skinned Edomite Jews, and any other non- whites who controlled Jerusalem at that time, and establishing once and for all times that like David, He was perfect in His race.

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Question: Would wearing a tight elastic bandage prevent my face from swelling too much after jaw surgery? I am going to have a jaw reconstruction procedure for the back section of my lower left jaw that will involve using an artificial substance that is known to cause severe swelling. I was wondering if wearing an elastic bandage that fits around the chin and cheeks and anchors at the top of the head might prevent the swelling from being as bad as it otherwise might be. Assuming I wear it pretty much constantly for the first week or so, it seems like the bandage would make it physically impossible for the tissue to expand. Will this method be effective? Thanks! This is what I purchased: http://www.contourmd.com/9F_Chin_Strap_F…

Answer: Talk it over with the surgeon--unless he/she says okay, please don't do it. the best thing for swelling is an ice pak. 20 minutes on, and 20 minutes off for the first 24 hrs. I just had gum surgery 2 weeks ago and that is what I was told--I had swelling and it was expected. You might do damage by wearing the chin strap, but I am not positive. Good luck.

Question: What causes Facial Wasting? Any Treatments Available.? my boyfreinds face has lost all fat around his cheeks giving him a hollow gaunt look with bags under his eyes. His weight is Ok everywhere else but it looks as though his face has caved in he is not hiv positive or has aids but has been diagnosed with thyroid problems also he has recently had cosmetic surgery reconstruction to his nose (his bridge). this was 18 months ago would this have any connection? what treatments available if any as searched on google but only hiv and aids related problems were returned. If there are/any treatments availiable, what would they involve? Look forward to seeing some of your answers/advice.

Answer: Other than aging, the most common reason for cheek fat-wasting is AIDS. There are also other disorders, however, such as lipodystrophy. In any case, there are "fillers" which work well for this disorder, such as Radiesse. Ask your local dermatologist about it.

Question: I love Mike & am just curious as to all the procedures he had done? I feel bad cuz I had been dissin' him(not hard, but still) since Thriller came out (I was 13). As time went on, I came to cherish this album & a few other songs too. I feel bad for the false accusations he's had to endure regarding the sexual allegations & whatnot. I'm just so curious as to all the things he's decided to do for himself as far as reconstruction, enhancements, etc? My sorrow is underscored by the fact that I now (& for the last 12 years) suffer from vitiligo(meaning I empathize w/ his situation) I'm just curious because not only did he say that his father teased him a lot,..but that he was peter pan at heart. I'm also wondering if he wanted to look almost faerie-like,..almost like one of the Keebler elves. I feel as if he made his eyelids droopy & put little implants in his cheeks. His lips look a little stretched,..so I'm thinking a face lift. ALL this is just out of curiosity. Just cuz I wanna be able to put my finger on it. For the record,..I cant sing along with a one of his songs w/o gettin all choked up. It'll pass in a couple weeks, I guess,....I hope. Oh God help me if it doesn't. He looked fine in the Thriller days. I wonder how things would have played out had he only suffered the scalp burns & the vitiligo?

Answer: Michael in the Martin Bashir documentary claimed he only ever had 2 operations, both being on his nose to help him breathe. However in his Moonwalker book, he also admits to having a cleft placed in his chin. The truth is he had way more procedures done on his face than he ever wanted to admit. I remember reading an article where a leading plastic surgeon could see that Michael had around 40 different procedures done on his face. Its a shame Michael never felt comfortable to admit it, as I think people would have respected him far more if he did. He did have vitiligo but he bleached his skin with benzone bleaching cream in order to even the patches out. According to a nurse that worked in the clinic he went to, he had a number of chemical face lifts too. Who knows, who cares, he was a good person who was misunderstood. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3314825/