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Chronic tongue and lip biting while eating
Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Sep 9 5:38am | Replies (51)Comment receiving replies
Thanks for your thoughtful message. On reading it, I realize I made a mistake and it is not the cervical vertebra that I fractured. Yes, oops, it was T9 and T10.
I wonder why some of us might lose this proprioception and awareness in the mouth regularly? If there is a change in mouth structure (i.e., from dental work or over clenching the jaw) then maybe the new "environment" takes a while to form a connection like a "muscle memory" I'm sure it would be easy to injure this area with all of the activity and moving parts in the mouth and jaw! I just looked for info on the mandibular nerve and it is very complicated and interesting. One website said that this nerve was vulnerable to injury.
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The impression I got, during which was just a neurological exam of all my body, was that it had to do with the nerves themselves, and/or maybe wires crossed in the brain. I also have 4th cranial nerve palsy, which is an injured 4th cranial (head) nerve. They never identified what they thought was causing it. It gets better, and some years, not so good.