-Re: OS says I can eat soft foods, but bite is 10 kinds of funky

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Hi ,

I like how you describe the chewing- micro vs. macro! I've never

really known how to describe it before and that works perfectly.

Before my surgery I couldn't micro chew at all (I would swallow rice

whole and that type of thing) and after surgery it's been a

progression in my ability to chew certain things. Anyway, thanks for

the terminology! Before I always called it fine chewing or specific

chewing. Micro is a better description.

Katja

> > I'm 5 weeks post op; was wired shut for 2 weeks, and banded shut

> for

> > another 2. Now I'm in elastis, which I'm allowed to remove to

eat

> > soft foods (since i can open my mouth about 12 mms to get food

in).

> >

> > the problem is in the chewing. And the problem is this. I can

> chew

> > softly reasonably well on one side, but on the other, the

surfaces

> of

> > my back teeth aren't parallel to each other; by this I mean, they

> > don't provide any kind of chewing " surface', because they meet at

> a

> > really weird angle...and so they only actually contact along a

> very

> > strange " ridge " ...making chewing pretty much impossible on that

> side.

> >

> > There's no surface to actually chew with.

> >

> > I imagine this is going to be something we fix with post-op

> > orthodontics. Does what I describe sound like something you

> surgical

> > veterans also went through? Roughly how long in post-op

> orthodontics

> > did you find until you were actually able to actually " chew " on a

> > side

> > that was perhaps funky immediately post-op??

> >

> > THAnks