Fairly young male (late teens), just wanted to say something and contribute.

I for one do it constantly. I bite it till my mouth bleeds. Create large abrasions of the mouth. It annoys me alot I get occasional headaches of fustration. Seen pics and really do want to stop just can’t even now I am biting my side of mouth. Gum ussally helps but it isn’t perfect for me it isn’t allowed at school and Gum isn’t great for teeth e.x.

I have occasionally biten holes with insizors which is painful when eating.

Thanks for advice listed all and shocking pics.

I really need to change the errors of my ways. 1 month ago

after having to get 10 stitches in my mouth after hitting a vein, i quit chewing the inside of my mouth. i hope everyone else can quit too. i know that it is hard to do. 6 months ago

it doesn’t seem like there has been much activity on here recently, but I’m still glad I came across this site. I have been chewing the inside of my cheek and bottom lip for sometime…probably since I was in high school, and I’m 33 now. Beginning around last February, it finally caught up to me and I started developing the symptoms of morsicatio buccarum et labiorum. It effected the appearance of my bottom lip and only got worse when I used my mouth in any way (you know, eating, talking – the normal stuff).

I started seeing several doctors about it beginning with my primary care physician, who referred me to an ear, nose and throat specialist, who referred me to an allergist, who referred me to a dermatologist, who referred me to an oral surgeon, which eventually led me back to my primary care physician, who has since referred me to yet another oral surgeon.

All the doctors up to the dermatologist thought it was Lichen planus, but it wasn’t until after a biopsy was performed this past December that it was diagnosed as morsicatio buccarum et labiorum. As you can imagine, I had been prescribed a ton of medication – topical creams, ointments, pills, you name it – to heal my cheeks and, more importantly to me, my bottom lip. The most recent prescription has proved to be the most effective so far, prednisone. It has done the most to keep my lip together, so to speak, and get it on track to looking healthier and more normal. I’m finishing up my 2nd cycle on it, and the results are promising. There still seems to be a measure of deterioration of my lip after I eat, but it’s less and less severe with each day.

It has been a LOOONG and, many times, dark 17 months, but I’ve definitely gotten through the worst of it, and am actually dating again (sweet). I just wanted to post on here because reading nearly every 200+ posts has certainly helped me not to feel completely alone, hopeless and helpless (one doctor told me “I’m not smart enough to treat this”). Actually, after reading stories from so many other people with the same problem as I have been dealing with, I have a new-found hope that I WILL be able to get through this and see my mouth once again healed, and actually feel completely normal.

Thank you to everyone who shared their story. You have really helped me. I needed to find this place. :) 10 months ago

I’ve been biting the insides of my cheeks and the insides of my lips since I was in elementary school. It isn’t a constant thing with me. It goes off and on. I will bite until there are no spaces left inside my mouth that I haven’t chewed. Then, after a couple days or more, after my cheeks feel a little puffy from being chewed on, I stop. Sometimes I will stop for months. I forget all about it. Then, I get stressed or bored or whatever and I start biting the insides of my cheeks and lips again. I hope I can stop this. I just found out tonight that you can get wrinkles around your mouth and I looked up the cancer scare, but there isn’t proof on that. I hope everyone who has this problem can stop, including me! 12 months ago

i will help others to stop chewing the inside of there mouth and hopefully oneone will help me we can be a team to help each other :) 13 months ago

I just discovered something that helps me to keep from biting the inside of my mouth. Cut 2 pieces out of the side of a one gallon plastic milk container, each about the size of an elongated quarter. Put a piece in each side of your mouth. Bingo! You can’t bite the inside of your mouth and you barely notice that it is there.. AND, you can still talk easily. Hope this works for you. I’m 71 years old and I have been fighting this for decades.

It is May 1, 2012 and I haven’t bitten my mouth in months, the longest success I have had in decades. This procedure has really helped me to overcome this bad habit. I hope others having this problem will try the procedure and let me know your results. 19 months ago

I am really anxious with our big change. It’s been to much to all of us, so bites are just going insane now. I need to find a way of stopping again and calm down. I would like to see someone that could really abandon that freaking habit !!! It’s so annoying and I just can’t quit. I have stopped for some months, even years, but there is a come back… Maybe it’s like alcohol or even drugs… Addiction. Well, that’s it… 21 months ago

I’ve done this on and off for as long as I can remember; I search for a loose bit of skin or a little nodule and pinch it between my top and bottom incisors, then push with my teeth until it really really hurts and I’ve bitten it off. I do this all along my bottom lip, in front of my teeth. The next day my lip is covered in white ulcers and is unbearably painful – I can only eat in small chunks and have to drink with a straw. 22 months ago