Amy, not a dumb question at all. I did see my dentist about a month ago and he did smooth down a couple of tooth surfaces that were dcausing problems. It is since then that I have had significant reduction in mouth pain and the sense that I am healing more so I think that helped quite a bit. I think there still may be a spot or two that eneds work , though, so I may call him this week and ask if he can squeeze me in again.

I am also having some problems with trismus--it isn't really severe but its definitely there- when I strecth my jaw a few times during the day I can get two fingers in the gap between the teeth --but it should be three fingers!

So I think it was hard for the dentist to see in the back of my mouth--I was at this kind of head pointing toward the floor angle in the chair and teh air blast from his thingie he ws using to smooth the edges suddenly started *really* hurting the sore spot on the abck of my mouth so I had to ask him to stop last time. I was really having a lot more pain then though.