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

September 8, 2005

I had no ability to micro-chew on my right side post-op until my

braces came off, which was when my dentist was able to replace my

crown/bridge/crown combo (which was made for my previous bite). I

had a buildup of acrylic (courtesy of my ortho) to help bridge the

gap, but there was still quite a bit of gap. I could only macro-chew.

I didn't go see my ortho until 8 weeks post-op. He won't work on his

patients any earlier than that.

Surgery was in August, braces came off following April, so I was

with that gap for quite awhile.

It also took me quite awhile to relearn how to chew with my new bite.

Hope that helps,

> 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

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