Mr Davies said this could delay treatment for the hundreds of patients who, in the past, would have been treated in Ipswich.
Sir Bobby Robson at Ipswich Hospital with Huw Davies, nurse Tarina Stocks and Patricia Salisbury chair of the Hospital League of Friends back in 2004
- Credit: Owen Hines
According to Mr Davies, the problem with the oral and maxillofacial department at Ipswich Hospital started with the decision to end head and neck cancer care there in 2008.
He added this left the department "half-baked" and unable to attract new surgeons.
"If the job isn't attractive, someone who's done all that training is not going to be very keen to come and join," he said. "We were not really able to make any substantive appointments.