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Suggest Treatment For Tight And Painful Jaw Muscles

So lately my jaw muscles have been really tight and painful. I've heard my jaw pop with movement, but yesterday it popped way worse than ever when I yawned. Now I have a hard bump on the out is of my lower jaw where my wisdom teeth should be. I also was eating a cookie just now and over the area with the hard lump there was a blister and it popped and a lot of blood came from it. Can you please give me some ideas as to what is happening.
Mon, 1 Dec 2014
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According to the situation you have described it looks more like the partially erupted wisdom molar on your lower jaw. Which forms a pocket with the gums over it. This can get infected repeatedly as there can be food lodgement in this pocket. And this infection can lead to spasm in your muscles that help in chewing. You need to get an x- ray done to confirm the diagnoses. And if this diagnoses turns true you need to get your wisdom molar from lower jaw extracted which mostly will b done surgically. And also add a regime of antibiotics and muscle relaxants and pain killers.
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Suggest Treatment For Tight And Painful Jaw Muscles

According to the situation you have described it looks more like the partially erupted wisdom molar on your lower jaw. Which forms a pocket with the gums over it. This can get infected repeatedly as there can be food lodgement in this pocket. And this infection can lead to spasm in your muscles that help in chewing. You need to get an x- ray done to confirm the diagnoses. And if this diagnoses turns true you need to get your wisdom molar from lower jaw extracted which mostly will b done surgically. And also add a regime of antibiotics and muscle relaxants and pain killers.