First there is a lot of information about trismus on this web site, much of it written by Bob Horst who is the founder of Therabite. Go to the dental community section and look under oral complications.

Trismus, as a rule, does not continue to get worse. It can wait till the end of radiation treatments to appear, or even a few months afterwards, but after that the degree of trismus is relatively stable. The Therabite device is one way of stretching the muscles and tissues to regain the opening ability you had before. The link to their web site exists on our resources page.

By the way, your comment about opening to eat a sandwich was interesting, I haven't eaten a sandwich since treatments ended, they are just too dry...but boy do I still crave them.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.