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If you regularly clench or grind your teeth, it might keep injuring the jaw muscles, and if those muscles can't heal properly, it could lead to long-term jaw pain.
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The study didn’t look at teeth grinding directly, but it found that jaw muscles heal poorly after repeated injury and become more sensitive, which supports the idea that habits like grinding could lead to long-term jaw pain.
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