Getting Botox in your masseter stops your jaw muscle from moving as much, which prevents you from anxiously clenching your ...

Bruxism affects the masseter muscle differently by gender, suggesting the importance of a gender-specific approach in assessing bruxism's impact on this muscle. The study was published in the American ...

Medically reviewed by Theresa Marko, PT, DPT, MS Key Takeaways TMJ dysfunction can cause neck pain, muscle spasms, and ...

In a recent study published in PLOS ONE, researchers investigated whether consuming different cocoa products in different proportions could lower pain experimentally induced by injecting hypertonic ...

I wasn’t exactly in the market for masseter Botox. I wasn’t grinding my teeth in my sleep, nor was I waking up with tension headaches. But when my editors asked if I’d be the guinea pig for a story on ...

As populations age, the prevalence of sarcopenia—a progressive loss of muscle mass and function—has become an increasingly ...

The other day, one of my best friends told me she wanted to get Botox injections in her jaw. She just accepted a new job offer and wanted to "treat herself" to bilateral jaw-muscle Botox, a procedure ...

The newly discovered muscle layer runs from the back of the cheekbone to the anterior muscular process of the lower jaw. (S= superficial layer, D= deep layer, C= coronoid layer) Jens. C. Türp, ...