thickening of the cheek tissue and teeth

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  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #22
    Cheeky
    My inner cheeks are also thick, but not sure if anymore than befoe...I've always had a problem with biting my cheeks..

    I do know the right side of my neck or throat is much more dense or hard feeling than the left...right receiving a higher concentration of radiation than the left.

    JG
  • Scambuster
    Scambuster Member Posts: 973
    #23
    Skiffin16 said:

    Cheeky
    My inner cheeks are also thick, but not sure if anymore than befoe...I've always had a problem with biting my cheeks..

    I do know the right side of my neck or throat is much more dense or hard feeling than the left...right receiving a higher concentration of radiation than the left.

    JG

    Biting from the dryness ??
    I think I was chomping on my inner cheeks for a while due to the dry mouth. When I found my mouth really dry, I would (and occasionally still do) have to blow air into my mouth to puff out my cheeks (Louis Armstrong style) and that would stop the chomping. I think if you chomped enough, you may have developed some scar tissue which would quite likely perpetuate this problem.

    I Suppose someone can now invent a 'Cheekometer' and take before and after measurements, and see if there is a change.

    Scam
  • D Lewis
    D Lewis Member Posts: 1,581 Member
    #24
    Scambuster said:

    Biting from the dryness ??
    I think I was chomping on my inner cheeks for a while due to the dry mouth. When I found my mouth really dry, I would (and occasionally still do) have to blow air into my mouth to puff out my cheeks (Louis Armstrong style) and that would stop the chomping. I think if you chomped enough, you may have developed some scar tissue which would quite likely perpetuate this problem.

    I Suppose someone can now invent a 'Cheekometer' and take before and after measurements, and see if there is a change.

    Scam

    Attest
    Yep. Cheek chomping going on here as well. These are informative posts. I was thinking it was happening because I'm some kind of uncoordinated moron. Nope. Just another of those side effects that keep on giving.

    Deb
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #25
    D Lewis said:

    Attest
    Yep. Cheek chomping going on here as well. These are informative posts. I was thinking it was happening because I'm some kind of uncoordinated moron. Nope. Just another of those side effects that keep on giving.

    Deb

    Good point, Scam
    I suppose when your lips and teeth keep sticking to your mouth they would be easier to bite.
  • pjm929
    pjm929 Member Posts: 26
    #26
    sweetblood22 said:

    Good point, Scam
    I suppose when your lips and teeth keep sticking to your mouth they would be easier to bite.

    Same here, but not from radiation
    I'm having the same problem. Inside my mouth, on right where I had neck dissection, it seems swollen. I have dentures and it still hurts to put upper and lower in at the same time. However, if I just put the top in that's when i bite down on the swollen part of my cheek. I haven't started radiation yet, so mine is just still swollen from surgery I had on May 30, 2012. I guess, question is, how long does it take for this swelling to go down?
  • hwt
    hwt Member Posts: 2,328 Member
    #27
    pjm929 said:

    Same here, but not from radiation
    I'm having the same problem. Inside my mouth, on right where I had neck dissection, it seems swollen. I have dentures and it still hurts to put upper and lower in at the same time. However, if I just put the top in that's when i bite down on the swollen part of my cheek. I haven't started radiation yet, so mine is just still swollen from surgery I had on May 30, 2012. I guess, question is, how long does it take for this swelling to go down?

    swelling
    I notice swelling/thickening inside my cheeks right after I eat and then it subsides.

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