For 52-year-old Las Vegas resident LeeAnn Hunt, her diagnosis of oral cancer brought out so many powerful emotions. Adding to that, was anxiety about the considerable expense associated with traveling to Utah or California for treatment.

Thankfully, she was relieved to discover that Dr. Suparna Shah, an assistant professor in the department otolaryngology head and neck surgery at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, could perform the necessary 10-hour surgery in Las Vegas at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC).

“The oral cancer had extended into the jaw bone,” Shah explains. “The plan was to resect the affected portion of the jaw, followed by microvascular reconstruction of the jaw using a section of LeeAnn’s fibula bone from her left leg — designing it to fit and be almost seamless.”

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