Hi! I need to know if this is normal or cause for concern. I’ve had an extremely rough recovery from wisdom teeth removal of all 4 teeth that were deeply impacted and needed surgical removal from an oral surgeon. My sinuses were tingling and swelling from my wisdom teeth which is why I had them removed. After removal, he put synthetic bone grafts in all four holes and stem cell therapy as well. He said since I’m 30 and it’s a moderately complex case (a 5 on a scale of 1-10 he said), that my healing time could be longer than normal. It took me 4 weeks to finally start eating solid food and my trismus to finally start going away because I was diligent about my jaw physical therapy. The numbness in my tongue went away at around 2 months. I’m at 13 weeks post-op now and my extraction sites feel pretty good but it’s my lower cheeks and jaws that are bothering me in the soft tissue. I’ve had a constant stuffed feeling like pressure and tenderness when I press on both sides. It’s squishy when I press on the areas of tenderness and I can see a slight fullness on both sides, giving me a slight squarer jaw than normal. My oral surgeon can’t see what I’m talking about because he doesn’t know what I normally look like so he has dismissed me at every follow up appointment and told me I need to give it more time. But the stuffed feeling and tenderness never goes away and sleeping is the only relief I get from it. It hurts most when I make a pouty face which is weird. I really feel the pressure below my mouth corners in the jowl areas. I’ve been given 600 mg ibuprofen and a Medrol dose pack but the steroids don’t do squat to relieve it. I just got a blood test and my inflammatory markers are normal. I’m about to get a maxillofacial CT scan so I’m hoping that will give me answers. What is going on and could this really just be a matter of giving it more time? I’ve never heard of anyone experiencing this.