Hi, Melissa.....You had asked specifically if it took a year for me to get to this point. No, it did not. I am probably past the point of ever going all the way back to a limited opening, but I still do mouth-opening exercises all day long, more from habit than from anything....I do them in the car, and watching tv.....absolutely all day long. And occasionally I get out my trusty Therabite and see how I'm doing. I am often surprised that I haven't been opening as widely as I had thought, as proven by the appliance.

You may not have to do this forever, but this first year if vital if you are ever to regain your full opening...and you DO want as much opening as possible. You want to get those teeth around a McDonald's hamburger as soon as possible!! And you will.