The human jaw can exert an incredible amount of pressure, around 250 pounds or about the weight of most fridges. Now imagine this pressure being exerted on your jaws on a regular basis. This can happen because of stress, when you start clenching your jaw and don’t realise it. This wear and tear can damage [...]
Jaw Pain
You might have had lower jaw pain for years, or maybe you’ve just started to notice it, either way you probably want to get rid of it. This type of jaw pain is often associated with a jaw condition called TMJ syndrome, a particularly hard condition to treat, because it’s causes are often habitual. To [...]
If you’ve ever woken up in the morning and you jaw is feeling incredibly uncomfortable and painful, then you’ve probably been teeth grinding in sleep. This can be a really frustrating condition to be faced with, because seemingly you can’t control what you do when you’re asleep. So how can you stop teeth grinding while [...]
When you wake up in the morning with jaw pain, you go through the day trying to stop your jaw from clenching and you go to sleep trying to do the same. If this is you, then you might be wanting a little bit of TMJ relief. Luckily, there are however a few things you [...]
“Chomp. Pop. Chomp. Pop…” If you’ve been suffering from jaw popping, you might be sick of the looks people give you when you eat in a quiet room or more likely, any associated pain with the popping. If you are experiencing pain with your jaw popping, don’t worry, you’re definitely not the only one. Where [...]
Jaw pain sucks, you’re over it right? Good. Lets do something about it. If you’ve found this page you probably know how frustrating any type of jaw pain can be, but maybe you don’t know why it’s happening and what you can do about it? Why It Happens: If you have jaw pain one side, [...]
It’s so annoying! It happens when your not thinking about it and drives you nuts. It can be painful and is usually the result of stress, bad posture and problems with the temporormandibular joints (TMJ). What can You do now to help control jaw clenching? One of the most effective ways to stop your jaw [...]
TMJ migraines can be incredibly pain and frustrating, especially if you don’t know what’s causing them or how to fix it. Basically TMJ migraines are the results of strain on a particular part of the mandibular joint. The strain is caused by tension from the muscles and tendons that exceeds the capacity of the jaw. [...]
The mother of two sat in the dentists’ room, “I have ear and jaw pain, it hurts to eat and my teeth are grinding at night.” The dentist nodded and proceeded to examine her teeth and jaw. He peered over the top of his glasses and said, “Looks like you have TMJ, it’s a common [...]
“Doctor, the pain in the left side of my jaw is killing me!”, the father of two complained. The dentist nodded reluctantly and said, “You’ve most likely got TMJ, it’s a stress related condition affecting the jaw area, here’s what I recommend you do…”. What Did The Dentist Say Next? This dentist wasn’t like [...]
“Click, Click, Click… Pop?!”, the noise of a clicking jaw is bad enough, but if you don’t do something about your jaw clicking it could develop into a condition that actually hurts. The most important thing is to seek treatment quickly as it will be easier to treat the earlier you catch it. (If your [...]
If you’re like most people who have jaw joint pain, then the image to the right probably makes you feel quite apprehensive. Biting down on hard foods like apples can cause a lot of discomfort if you have jaw pain. Unfortunately, people who have jaw pains are disregarded alot of the time and told “It [...]
Shooting pains in the jaw and ear are horrible to live with day in and day out. TMJ ear pain is very common and is most cases very poorly treated. Most of the time your dentist or therapist will blame stress and give you some sort of mouth guard or drug to help your muscles [...]
Your TMJ nerve pain is getting worse. Shooting and stabbing pains that just keep coming. Your sick of spending your entire day trying not to open your mouth too wide, chewing so softly only to get another sharp pain. Is there really no effective way to stop TMJ nerve pain? You Can Fix It Yourself? [...]
Having to put up with a sore jaw is incredibly frustrating. It hurts when you eat, when you laugh, when you yawn… actually, when doesn’t it hurt? But enough of that, why might this be happening and what can you do to fix it? First, Find Out What’s Causing Your Sore Jaw: There is a [...]
