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Chronic tongue and lip biting while eating

Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Sep 9 5:38am | Replies (51)
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@ammaw52

I have started hitting my inside lower lip the past few days making a sore. I only do it when I eat. This has never happen before. I have a back top partial and bottom dentures which have not been a problem. This is my natural top teeth that are biting my inside lip. What causes this? How do I get it well?

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Scott R L | @scottrl | Oct 13, 2023

Sometimes when I'm stressed, my jaw muscles tighten, which rearranges my lower jaw. That changes the alignment of my teeth, of course, which can lead to lip-biting.

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debduh11 | @debduh11 | Oct 25, 2023

I have done this numerous times and it seems that once you bite it, you continually do so. I have a small cyst that formed on the inside toward the side of my lower lip. Yesterday I was eating and bit down on this lip so hard that I took the top of it off! It is sooo sore! I've tried ambesol and it helps temporarily for the pain but I need to know how to heal it.

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