Professor Leo Stassen:

-----intravenous antibiotics and painkillers. They are often in hospital for a period.

With regard to mouth cancer and HPV, which was just mentioned, when I worked in the dental school we would have to apply to the principal dental surgeon to reconstruct the mouths of these patients with implants and-or rehabilitation. Professor Lynch may comment on this matter as well. It would probably be more than a year or sometimes two years before we received a response. Frequently, if the principal dental surgeon could afford it with the budget available, we might be able to reconstruct the mouths of these patients so that they could eat, drink and have a life. When I excised the cancers of these patients, it often involved excising all of their teeth or their jaw. When they have no teeth they cannot eat, speak or drink. I do not know whether Professor Lynch wants to comment. It is very hard to get funding for such treatment. While I admit that is at a higher level, it should be automatic.