A complex jaw reconstruction surgery reaches Mississippi

Since losing his teeth, Herbert Griffith has tried just about every smoothie on the market that his older sister could find for him. 
Thanks to a newly available surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Dentistry, Griffith, a 65-year-old oral cancer survivor and fishing enthusiast living in Laurel, has graduated to mashed potatoes. 
Beverly Cole, left, and Herbert Griffith, right, stand with their late mother. Credit: Courtesy of Beverly ColeGriffith lost most