The jaw hurts when opening the mouth: the reasons and recommendations for eliminating unpleasant sensations

If your jaw hurts when you open your mouth, you should immediately contact your dentist, neurologist or surgeon. Only experienced specialists after a personal inspection will tell you about why this phenomenon bothers you. But if you can not visit the hospital in the near future, then below we will present some of the most probable reasons why the jaw hurts, and how to eliminate discomfort.

Fracture

Serious jaw fracture can occur in a fight, if the same fatal blow fell on the face, as well as during an accident, accident, etc. In such situations, a person feels severe pain, difficulty or impossibility of chewing, swelling, bruising and bruising.

Osteomyelitis of the jaws

Another reason why the jaw hurts when opening the mouth, it may well be an infectious inflammation of bone disease. At present, doctors distinguish 2 types of osteomyelitis:

• Odontogenic;
• Hematogenous.

It is the first form that arises from the infection that enters and affects the "dentogingival" pocket. Quite serious pathogens of such inflammation can be staphylococci, streptococci and various anaerobic bacteria. The main symptoms of this disease include permanent headaches, pulsating pain in the jaw, teeth and their reeling, as well as body temperature reaching up to 40 degrees.

Diseases of the mouth

To such diseases, because of which the jaw hurts when opening the mouth, include the defeat of pulp, caries with inflammation of the nerve and periodontium. The main symptoms of these diseases are pulsating pain in the jaw (at night much more than in the day), numbness of the lower lip, a significant decrease in the tone of the chewing muscles.

Arteritis of the facial artery

This disease is characterized by a lesion of the artery located in the jaw. Symptoms of this deviation is a strong burning sensation, which extends from the chin to the lip and nose.

Disturbances in the functions of the temporomandibular joint

This abnormality can be preceded by both an incorrect congenital bite and an inflammatory process in this area of the face. Among other things, the reasons that the jaw hurts when opening the mouth, can serve:

• Cranial neuralgia;
• Neuralgia of the glossopharyngeal nerve;
• Neuralgia of the laryngeal nerve (upper);
• Neuralgia of the ear node;
• Carotidinia (a particular type of migraine);
• Sarcoma is osteogenic (or malignant).

What if my jaw aches?

To determine why you are disturbed by this phenomenon, you must personally visit a specialist. And only after the diagnosis is made, you will be given a course of treatment, as well as physiotherapy. But if in the next few days you can not get to the hospital, then you should follow the recommendations below, which will provide complete peace for your lower jaw joint:

1. Try not to open your mouth too wide. In this case, the food should be taken with a dessert spoon. Food should be a mushy consistency.
2. Try to refrain from yawning.
3. Be limited only by those chewing movements that are necessary for food intake.