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Hello Delda, I appear to have missed your question about biting the inside of your mouth, but I did see Stefan's reply, and I can maybe contribute a little. I too suffer occasional injury through biting my mouth, cheek, etc on the inside. I suppose that it is our old friend PD casually causing one of the mouth muscles to get out of synchronisation. When it happened to me I often used to find that the affected area tended to swell, making it much more likely that another bite would occur, and so on. I am sure that it would not happen if I chewed more carefully etc. but can a leopard change its spots? I have to try to remember so many things that to a non PWP are second nature that I would need something like a -747 pilot's check list before I started eating. I can recommend one thing that has helped me considerably: to any new bite which I may give myself, I apply a jelly-like substance which must have many names, but is called Bonjela in the UK. Its primary purpose is to soothe young children who are teething by rubbing it on their gums. It has a local anaesthetic, seems to help in stopping the swelling, and helps prevent the introduction of secondary infection, and is very good at curing those painful little mouth ulcers which can occur. Regards, -- Brian Collins <[log in to unmask]>