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I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth removed at 22 years of age (I am mid-sixties).
The sockets were stitched and irregular, and always compelled me to cleaned them
with my tongue. A year ago the bottom scars turned white not long after
I started drinking daily lemon water (bleaching agent?) to prevent kidney stones.
The scars feel like granulomas and look pretty much
exactly like THIS (on the side I chew), and just a spot of white on the other:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...s_-_a_retrospective_clinicopathological_study
My dentist noted some widening of the patches and sent me to an oral
surgeon who screened me for tobacco (none) and told me my beer drinking
alone could not cause this, but in order "to be sure" insisted upon
biopsies on both sides which "get bone".
I have three questions:
1) If I ask for a panoramic xray and a brush biopsy of one side
and the doctor says "no, those don't work" what are the questions to ask to find
someone who will do something less invasive like this?
2) If there is such a thing as "BARK" which isn't even a leukoplakia
isn't there a simple way to identify this?
3) If this could come from tongue rubbing and chewing on extractions from the
1970's, hasn't the dentistry world come up with some test that avoids cutting
up scars...like maybe a needle biopsy?
The sockets were stitched and irregular, and always compelled me to cleaned them
with my tongue. A year ago the bottom scars turned white not long after
I started drinking daily lemon water (bleaching agent?) to prevent kidney stones.
The scars feel like granulomas and look pretty much
exactly like THIS (on the side I chew), and just a spot of white on the other:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...s_-_a_retrospective_clinicopathological_study
My dentist noted some widening of the patches and sent me to an oral
surgeon who screened me for tobacco (none) and told me my beer drinking
alone could not cause this, but in order "to be sure" insisted upon
biopsies on both sides which "get bone".
I have three questions:
1) If I ask for a panoramic xray and a brush biopsy of one side
and the doctor says "no, those don't work" what are the questions to ask to find
someone who will do something less invasive like this?
2) If there is such a thing as "BARK" which isn't even a leukoplakia
isn't there a simple way to identify this?
3) If this could come from tongue rubbing and chewing on extractions from the
1970's, hasn't the dentistry world come up with some test that avoids cutting
up scars...like maybe a needle biopsy?