Iamsai
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Have had issues with my jaw popping for years, as well as increasingly noticeably asymmetric features, I have TMJD with reduction which is where the joint pops both in and back out depending on the movement of the jaw, for the past three days I have been practicing something called functional neutral, which is where you put your tongue slightly behind your front teeth, let your jaw hang completely relaxed, a couple cm apart. This allows both of the jaws masseter muscles to relax and become unirritated. Eventually the unbalanced muscles will even themselves out. Typically one's jaw leans towards one side due to muscular imbalances in both the jaw, and then consequently the back, that is due to the body naturally leveling out eyesight that would otherwise be crooked due to the jaws rotations . One side of the face also swells and is weaker due to lack of use, the opposite side of the way the jaw leans. Due to the mouth posture I described, my jaw less relaxed, and my bite centered slowly over a couple days, the popping reduced as well. The biggest aspect for returning my jaw to center was my neck posture, I unconsciously was tilting my head clockwise to compensate for my jaw. My tilting it counter clockwise, after a couple hours my bite and jaw has centered. It will take much longer for the muscular balances to fix, within weeks-couple months. That is normal. After prolonged time with proper neck posture and functional neutral mouth position the faces muscles will even out and stop compensating for the tilt. And your symmetry will return. Just in a couple days I noticed my nose and philtrum aligning with my front teeth and then jaw in a straight line. However one side of the musculature on my jaw is still uneven from heightened activity while it was tilted for several years. Some require pt exercises if bite centered does not return after only mouth and neck posture.
