Has anyone had this problem? About a week
ago, I bit the inside of my bottom lip. It
hurts! Since then I've been biting it
nearly every day, not on purpose of
course! It just happens while I'm chewing.
I've been trying to chew slower and with
more precision, keeping my mind on what
I'm doing, but that is so difficult
especially when eating out with friends. I
forget and then bang I've bit my lip
again. One of my bottom teeth is kind of
jagged and two of them tend to protrude
out. I'm wondering if they are protruding
just a smidgen more lately and that thats
why this is happening. They don't look any
different to me. But something is causing
this and I don't know what to do.
Can anyone help. What can I do? Thank you!
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Tmddyan
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Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 4349 Location: post falls, id usa
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Hey Posted: 07-29-07 22:08pm
the only way to fix this would be to have
braces. i think
hey is your name dyan? ive never run into
anyone that spelled it that way
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idiopathic12
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 24 Location: california
Posted: 07-31-07 18:12pm
Dyanne,
I had exactly the same problem you
describe and was VERY worried about it.
It finally resolved itself---and I didn't
need braces. Here's most of what I wrote,
on this forum, December 19, 2005:
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I bit my lip while eating a sandwich a
week ago. Since then, i've been biting it,
accidently, almost always while chewing,
almost everyday, if not every day. I've
had successive involuntary lip biting
episodes in the past, but none that seemed
to last quite this long.
I've been trying to chew much more slowly
and carefully, but I can almost never
manage to go without chomping down on it
during a meal once or twice. It's usually
sort of a sudden, spasmodic bite, while
i'm trying to move food around in my
mouth, usually after taking too big a
bite, which I have a habit of doing. This
worries me. I've heard cheek biting might
cause cancer. Can lip biting too?
I have moderate to advanced periodontitis,
and I suspect a bite problem
(malocclusion?) so I fear this may be the
cause. I've been slightly, now and then,
snagging the inside lip with my front
teeth, but could this be due to swelling
from the intermittent biting?
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James/Idiopathic12
