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My jaw is no longer sore, but still tight, sometimes on both sides. eating soft diet now. how can i loosten it. what is best advice?
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Get checked: get checked by a neuromuscular dentist. The jaw can be placed nonsurgically in a unloaded neuromuscular posture . This posture is the position where the muscle fibers are at their full firing length which the most comfortable position for the jaw.
Answered 9/13/2014
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