Why is it important to open your mouth for training after jaw surgery? Because after we do the surgery, only the bone surface is peeled away from the muscle and the jawbone. The separated tissues then heal back together again. When we open our mouth at this time, the scar healing and the anterior pull of the scar will restrict us from opening our mouth. Therefore, it is important to perform mouth opening exercises after surgery. How long after surgery is mouth training needed? Generally, it is recommended to train only after twenty days to one month. And it should be done slowly and progressively. Why? Because it takes three weeks for the wound to grow strong, so it is easy to strain the wound if you open it very wide at one time. How to open the mouth training? At first, we open our mouth a little bit and show our teeth, and then we slowly practice biting chopsticks with our teeth. Why do we need to bite the chopsticks? Because the chopsticks are held between the teeth, and they have a slow and continuous supporting force. If we just open our mouths and don’t bite the chopsticks, it will not only fail to have a training effect, but will also make our mouths hurt. Practice for about two to three minutes each time, repeat this, and then gradually move to the back of the back teeth, the more you open the wider and wider. If one chopstick is not enough, we will use two chopsticks to stack up and bite down. If that’s enough, we’ll put three fingers, and that’s the general height of the mouth. How many times a day should we train? Generally speaking, two to three times is fine. What do you feel after training? Must be a feeling of soreness, but not pain. If you don’t feel anything, it means you haven’t practiced enough. If it hurts a lot, it means you have practiced too much.