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  2. Dentist reveals 1 easy exercise you can do to stop clenching ...

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    Slowly draw your fingers down the sides of your face and into your neck. Take another deep, cleansing breath. "It sounds goofy, but that relaxes the jaw muscles as part of a biofeedback loop ...

  3. How to Tell If You're Clenching Your Jaw—And How to Stop - AOL

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    Your jaw muscles coil up in the same way. After the COVID-19 pandemic, Grinbaum noticed a sharp increase in clenching-related damage, which she attributed to those years’ high stress levels.

  4. Temporomandibular joint dysfunction - Wikipedia

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    Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD, TMJD) is an umbrella term covering pain and dysfunction of the muscles of mastication (the muscles that move the jaw) and the temporomandibular joints (the joints which connect the mandible to the skull).

  5. Bruxism - Wikipedia

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    Bruxism is excessive teeth grinding or jaw clenching. It is an oral parafunctional activity; [1] i.e., it is unrelated to normal function such as eating or talking. Bruxism is a common behavior; the global prevalence of bruxism (both sleep and awake) is 22.22%. [2]

  6. Muscles of mastication - Wikipedia

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    In humans, the mandible, or lower jaw, is connected to the temporal bone of the skull via the temporomandibular joint. This is an extremely complex joint which permits movement in all planes. The muscles of mastication originate on the skull and insert into the mandible, thereby allowing for jaw movements during contraction.

  7. Jaw jerk reflex - Wikipedia

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    Studies have shown that there is a significant effect of sex on the jaw jerk reflex. Electromyographs are used to measure the impulse within the muscle, allowing the amplitude of the impulse to be known and shown on a graph. The ECMs were focussed on the masseter muscle and temporalis muscle. Females showed a significantly higher amplitude ...

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  9. Temporomandibular joint - Wikipedia

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    Temporomandibular disorder (TMD, also termed "temporomandibular joint pain-dysfunction syndrome") is pain and dysfunction of the TMJ and the muscles of mastication (the muscles that move the jaw). TMD does not fit neatly into any one etiologic category since the pathophysiology is poorly understood and it represents a range of distinct ...

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