Title: TMJ Can Give You an Uneven Facial Appearance | Dr. Kevin Berry
Headings: TMJ Can Give You an Uneven Facial Appearance
TMJ Can Give You an Uneven Facial Appearance
Tooth Wear Can Put Your Jaw Off-Balance
Joint Displacement Can Tilt Your Jaw
Bone Irregularity Can Change the Height on Each Side
Overdeveloped Muscles Can Make One Side Bulge
Spinal Imbalance Can Tilt the Head
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Content: Often, this can be fixed by building up teeth that have been worn down and trying to chew more evenly on both sides of your mouth. Joint Displacement Can Tilt Your Jaw
The proper orientation of your temporomandibular joint has a certain height to it. If the cushioning disk is displaced or worn away, the joint can lose height, causing your jaw to cant off to one side. If the disk is displaced, it can often be coaxed back into place and encouraged to stay there with TMJ treatment, but if it’s worn away, there is not currently a good replacement available. Bone Irregularity Can Change the Height on Each Side
One phenomenon that has been observed in TMJ sufferers is that their jawbone is shorter on one side that the other. Sometimes, this may be due to wear of the condyle, the round part of the jawbone that fits up against the skull. However, it’s also been observed that people have a shorter ramus, the vertical part of the jaw that forms its back. Although condylar wear has been attributed to TMJ, it’s unclear whether variations in ramal height are due to TMJ or the other way around. Overdeveloped Muscles Can Make One Side Bulge
Another problem that occurs with TMJ is that one side of your jaw may be working much harder than the other. This may lead to over-development of jaw muscles on that side.