I was transported back to 1998 and the oral surgeon on Thursday, February 12, 2026 when my California osteopath palpated inside my mouth.  Intra-oral palpation is not unusual in my case; this event, however, was not the norm… for either of us.

Intra-oral treatment can be most uncomfortable and when she pulled her gloved hand out of my mouth, her eyes were as big as saucers.  Looking directly into my eyes, she calmly said: “I know exactly what happened to the sphenoid bone during that intubation injury.”  And she proceeded to demonstrate the torque/sheer to the sphenoid that occurred during this trauma.  “The motion in this area is more normal now.”