Sir I Am 18 Years Old And I Chewed Gutka For 3 Years. Recently My Mouth Was not Opening Fully Only 2 Finger Gap .What Should I Do.
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Get properly treated. First get a biopsy done from an oral surgeon, after lab reports and oral payhologist/oral medicine radilogy specialist opinion, start treatment. Various options are available from injections to creams and tablets.
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First all of you stop gutka, take antioxidants daily. Nd lycopene rich diet, do mouth opening exercises. Concern to your near by dentist for proper treatment. Reduced mouth opening is due to oral submucous fibrosis.
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Quit habits strictly. Seems like you have oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF). Kindly consult an oral & maxillo facial surgeon in person for further suggestion. We need more investigations with clinical examination to decide upon treatment. You may need conservative or surgical management for mouth opening depending upon the stage of OSMF .Advise full mouth opening, ballooning exercise & side to side movement of the jaw. Wrap 25 to 30 ice-cream sticks, make a bundle, put it between upper & lower front teeth for 15 minutes thrice a day increase 1 sticks each day.
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Hello Lybrate user, your condition is called oral submucous fibrosis. It is ver common in regular beetlenut or gutkha chewer. The first thing you should do is to stop taking gutkha immidiately. Next you find an oral pathologist and give him a visit. If you stop taking gutkha from now onwards this condition can be treated or else after few years, it would be impossible for you to open your mouth. Hope this helps.
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Hi lybrate-user, Chewing Gutka is bad for health, it leads to decrease in mouth opening n this stage is called as osmf oral submucosal fibrosis. In this fibrous band appears in inner side of cheek n leads to decrease in mouth opening and in later stage it can leads to mouth cancer. Please stop habit of chewing gutka ,There are many medications n injection which help you to open mouth in this condition, if still mouth opening is same or not increased we can go for surgery for mouth opening .Consult oral n maxillofacial surgeon for review n after 6 months for review.
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Your problem OSMF has gone beyond conservative treatments like antioxidants, mouth exercises and plecetrex injections. A normal surgery may lead to scarring and relapse of the condition. Apart from this it is also very very long process to achieve a maximum of 6 to 8 mm mouth opening. Presently the best treatment is LASER surgery. Outcome is excellent and is less likely to relapse. Remember, OSMF is potentially malignant condition that means if you won't stop chewing gutkha right now, some or other day you will get the news of having mouth CANCER. THANK YOU.
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