A 78-year-old otherwise healthy man went to a dentist after a toothache, hoping for a quick treatment. The doctor decided to extract the affected lower left premolar to relieve him of pain. However, ...

Lockjaw (trismus) happens when your jaw muscles tighten up so much that you can’t open your mouth properly. It's most often associated with tetanus, a dangerous infection from Clostridium tetani ...

A young man’s jaw locked mid-yawn at a railway station in Palakkad in Kerala, leaving him unable to close his mouth. A ...

You may experience neck and jaw pain simultaneously for several reasons. Because the two are connected, what affects one also affects the other. Because the neck and jaw are connected by joints, it ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - TMJ disorders can cause pain in your jaw joint and in the muscles that control jaw movement. The exact cause of TMJ disorder is often difficult to determine.

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INDIA -- Dentists in India removed more than 500 teeth from a mass in the jaw of a 7-year-old boy. The remarkable surgery happened at Saveetha Dental College and Hospital in Chennai, India. According ...