A woman has said her tongue now looks like a "drumstick lolly" after it was rebuilt using her leg.
Charlotte Webster-Salter, 27, began suffering from recurring ulcers in 2018 but put it down to working long shifts as a flight attendant and feeling ‘run down’. However, it turned out that the symptoms were actually signs of a kind of mouth cancer.
In February 2021, her tongue developed sore, white patches. The student midwife, from Petersfield, East Hampshire, took several trips to the dentist and GP before eventually being referred to a specialist at the Ear, Nose and Throat department at St Richards Hospital, Chichester for a biopsy.
