Masseter Botox for Teeth Grinding: How Anti-Wrinkle Injections Ease Jaw Tension

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If you clench and grind your teeth, you're going to want to watch this video. Clenching and grinding your teeth leads to overactivity of your masseter muscle, which is your jaw muscle, and it can make you look really angular and bulky. Not only that, it can give you tension headaches and tension jaw ache, but also grinding your teeth makes your teeth shorter, which actually reduces the height of your face, making your whole face look shorter.

In order to combat this, we like to treat the masseter muscle with toxin. What the toxin does is it paralyzes the muscle, so you can still use it, but you're not using it with as much force, so your muscle doesn't become bulky and your teeth don't become damaged.