The mouth opening can be stretched using a Therabite. At one point there was a lot of discussion on the forum about it. However, from what I have read, it’s efficacy is limited. Apparently some people use a stack of tongue depressors, which is, of course, way cheaper. The problem with a very limited mouth opening is that if he ever needs to be intubated for any procedure, the doctors may have difficulty doing it. When John was in hospital and needed a nasal tube for feeding, the nurses couldn’t do it and he had to be booked into Interventional Radiology to be put under. It also means he cannot have some dental work done as the dentist won’t be able to get into his mouth. If at all possible, I would suggest you take this up with the doctor on the next recall.

Connie, I’m sure you don’t need any more aggravation. I would just like to mention this so that if problems do arise in the future, you know where they have come from.