Injury/ permanent mouthpiece dent
A few months ago I was in warming up and felt a sharp pain in the left side of my upper lip, it hurt like hell for a second or two and then went away, I didn’t think much of it because it was something I had never felt before, that was about a few days before I played a show with cyrille amie, upuntill that day I was probably playing four hours a day between rehearsals and individual practice time.
Looking back on everything, I did not have a good teacher at all, I was overplaying every single day way past my limits 6-7 hours a day and my teacher was fully aware of the overplaying and never said anything untill it was too late.(weekly lesson).
Fast forward to today,
I basically have a mouthpiece dent on the left side of my top lip in the same exact spot I had the sharp pain, I say the word permanent but I pray to god it’s not, it has gotten better but I’m extremely paranoid and worried that this will never heal or the mucle will never be the same,
I still have “pain” although now its more like a “rawnes” or “soar” feeling, ontop of the physical difference and dent compared to the right side of my lip.
I haven’t been able to find a professional to look into this,
Any advice is welcome I’ve been dealing with this for a while and just want to feel like I’m not going to be disadvantaged my whole career or be at risk of never healing