man with hands at his jaw in pain from TMJ

TMJ Disorder (TMD)

What can cause TMJ (TMD)? grinding or clenching your teeth, which puts a lot of pressure on the joint movement of the soft cushion or disc between the ball and socket of the joint stress, which can cause you to tighten facial and jaw muscles or clench teeth injury to your jaw, joint, or muscles of your head and neck a bad bite or poorly positioned teeth It has been recognized that approximately 90% of the pain in the body comes from muscles. Since the muscles of the head and neck are all related to or affected by the bite…