Botox

If you regularly experience migraines, headaches, or pain in your jaws or face, you know how disruptive these symptoms can be to your quality of living and sense of wellbeing. With such close proximity to your brain, pain in your head, jaw, or neck is distracting at best and debilitating at worst. Along with uncomfortable physical symptoms, you may also experience the onset or exacerbation of mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression.

While the root cause isn’t always known, migraines, headaches, and orofacial pain are often triggered or worsened by hyperactivity in your jaw muscles. Your jaw joints (called the temporomandibular joints, or TMJs) are incredibly powerful, producing an average biting force of 162 pounds per square inch. When your TMJs are well aligned and free from stress or injury, you likely won’t give them a second thought when you chew your food, yawn, and speak. But if your bite is misaligned or if your grind or clench your teeth (called bruxism), you may experience a wide range of physical symptoms that negatively impact your teeth, jaws, face, head, and neck.