10 days post op upper jaw surgery. Need encouragement.
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10 days post op upper jaw surgery. Need encouragement.
My bite looks good for my open bite corrective surgery as well as underbite correction, but my muscles won’t settle down even with heavy rubber bands. I had an excellent surgeon team, but I’m still clenching down in my sleep. Midline is now on, but when I fully occlude it does hit some interference on a tooth & slide over a bit, but surgeon said that will be corrected with my braces in a few weeks. Obviously my jaw is banded shut which is very uncomfortable. How do I get the muscles to calm down? Prescription muscle relaxers aren’t even doing much. So far no joint pain, but that won’t be the case forever if I can’t get my jaw to relax. I’m pretty convinced they put my maxilla where it should be, but my muscles have been messed up for years due to my open bite & only making contact on my far back left molar. Nothing else could really touch until now. Need advice & encouragement.