Masseter Botox for Teeth Grinding: How Relaxing One Muscle Eases Jaw Tension and Softens the Jawline
A patient came to Wellface for anti-wrinkle treatment, and Dr Yasmin Tayeb spotted a bulging masseter muscle giving away years of clenching and grinding. Here is how a small amount of botulinum toxin in the masseter can ease teeth grinding, calm jaw tension and soften a heavy jawline, plus who it suits, what a session involves and how the results build over time.
Transcript
Couple of dots just coming down. Okay, Botox, yep, will do for you. Hold on, and you're bulging at your masseter.
I know, I know, I know. Clench for me. Yeah.
Are you stressed? Who isn't stressed? Yes, exactly.
Do you want that sorted? Absolutely gorgeous. She's got a super gorgeous feminine face.
And then nice and relaxed, and then clench for me, and then it's popping. So that is her masseter muscle, and relax, and then pop again for me. Gorgeous.
Really nice, but it's super, super tense. So you can tell there's a lot of tension in this muscle, which will travel up to the temporalis muscle, which is up here. And when patients are really stressed out with lots of clenching and grinding, it will travel from here to here to the back of the head, neck, and shoulders.
And that's when you have patients coming in with lots of pain. But actually, most of the time, if we can sort out the trigger point here and allow the muscle to relax, we can sort out half of the problems coming all the way down the back of the head, neck, and shoulders. So as usual, a little bit of botulinum toxin in this muscle will do the trick.
Is that okay, my lovely?
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