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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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Dr. David Satloff answered

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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A member asked:

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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Dr. David Satloff answered

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