Re: Question re: resting position of bite --Sara/

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I'm having a harder time post-op closing my lips (but I think it's

mostly due to swelling and splint). I can close them, it just takes

a conscious effort, where as before, it didn't (I had my surgery due

to a cross-bite). Anyhow, to answer your question: In

normal " resting " position, my lips were slightly together with a

little parting in the center and my teeth were not in bite position,

but slightly apart (so they didn't really touch). I think this may

all be dependant on how you breathe too (i.e., if you're a mouth vs.

nose breather), but I think that not having your lips/teeth

completely shut and touching at rest is not abnormal.

-- How is your tongue issue? I hope that you are, at

least, not in pain anymore. I have one more week of this splint and

I can't wait to get it out!! I still have " golfball cheeks " too,

and it's frustrating that it's not going down. I hope it's just the

swelling and not the new position of my jaw that is making my cheeks

look like this!

> > This is a question really I guess for any one but perhaps post-

> opers

> > can answer it best.

> >

> > When you are in resting position, for example when you're asleep

or

> > reading or watching television, how do you keep your

> teeth/bite/mouth?

> > Are your teeth clenched closed or are they slightly parted or

just

> > resting gently on top of each other? Do you always keep your

lips

> > closed?

> >

> > I ask probably because now that I am splintless and bandless I

am

> > getting a little paranoid that I am not keeping everything in

the

> right

> > position. When I am resting I do keep my lips closed now

(something

> I

> > could never do without straining before) but my bite is not

> actually

> > closed unless I consciously think about it and bite down, which

is

> a

> > pain in the you know what if you ask me. So, is what I am doing

ok

> or

> > should I be telling my OS and OD about this? I'm thinking that

> maybe I

> > still do need those bands.

> >

> > Sara