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

[Guest guest]

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