How do you manage dental care, oral hygiene, and nutrition in patients with trismus?  

This can be remarkably challenging. Each case must be tailored to the oncologic presentation and discussed with the multidisciplinary team (surgeon, med onc, rad onc, dentist, speech pathologist) and patient. Ideally, your team can try to anticipate short and long-term expections regarding resolutio...

In my experience, trismus caused by oral cavity cancer rarely gets much better after therapy (typically surgery followed by radiation (chemoRT). Primaries that are more sensitive to chemoradiation like oropharynx or nasopharynx may have trismus that resolves to a greater degree, but rarely completel...