Eating bite pain may be overbite restoration, or it may be the development of temporomandibular joint disorder disease, which requires consideration of redoing the denture or using medication.
1. Overbite. When a full denture is restored, if the vertical distance of the occlusion is too high, there will be soreness in the biting muscles, and the denture wearer’s face will be observed to be tense under the chin, and the denture will need to be redone after re-recording the normal height of the occlusion.
2. Temporomandibular joint disorder. Eating bite muscle pain may also be temporomandibular joint disorder, with hand pressure on the chewing muscle can appear pain, even affect the opening of the mouth is limited, can be the first local wet hot compresses, cold compresses or physiotherapy, taking diclofenac sodium tablets, serious need to use lidocaine local closure.
Eating bite muscle pain, it is recommended that timely medical examination of the cause of pain, targeted treatment.