Yeh, they removed the tongue due to cancer.. and put a flap of skin in there to replace it..
But now the person has no sense of taste .
Wonder if they can move the flap of skin like it were their real tongue?
i remember seeing a story in a Ripley's Believe it or Not book about a man who had his missing tongue replaced with a bit of his ass cheek. in the picture you could see butt hair growing out of it.