Facial Spasms
Hemifacial spasm can be confused with other conditions affecting the face
. Like hemifacial spasm, Bell's palsy affects the muscles on just one side of the face, but causes weakness rather than over-activity. Also like hemifacial spasm, trigeminal neuralgia affects just one side of the face, but causes pain instead of twitching.
Young children frequently develop muscle spasms of the face or extremities that are repetitive and troublesome. Some examples of these spasms include eye blinking, squinting, nose wrinkling, facial grimacing, throat clearing, or grunting. These facial grimaces are often referred to as tics, and can be very uncomfortable and embarrassing for those children who experience them. Sometimes, but not always, these tics disappear as the child grows into adolescence or adulthood.
Another explanation for the development of tics is a lack of essential vitamins or minerals, including magnesium. In certain instances, facial tics are symptoms of disorders of the nervous system, including Tourette syndrome, a health condition arising from a dysfunction of the nervous system. Tourette syndrome is thought to have a genetic component as well.
Facial tics are usually not treated or, in some acute cases or when the tics are symptoms of Tourette syndrome, patients might be prescribed antipsychotics which are also prescribed to treat conditions such as attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia or obsessive-compulsive disorders. Those drugs were not developed to cure facial tics particularly and may not always be efficient.
You can also relieve a muscle spasm by applying gentle pressure in the area of the facial nerve. The point is located at the jaw point, just in front of each ear and right below the cheekbone. You can feel it when you open and close your mouth. Steadily press the point on the affected side with your finger for 1 to 2 minutes, keeping your mouth closed. Repeat as often as necessary.
When considering facial rejuvenation, it may be difficult to decide whether to get Botox or soft tissue fillers. The two procedures have different applications.
For the sake of simplicity, wrinkles produced by repeated and habitual contraction of the underlying muscles of facial expression are treated with Botox. These include areas between the eyebrows, worry lines across the forehead, and crow's feet.
Tics are minute, irregular muscle contractions that affect the face, especially the eye area. They last only a fraction of a second and, although painless are annoying and often embarrassing. The precise cause is unknown, but tics are associated with stress and being upset.
While the causes of TMJ are many, the condition is usually the result of a collective malfunctioning of the chewing muscles, the teeth, and the temporomandibular joint. The face and jaw muscles may go into spasm or cramp and lead to tissue damage, pain and tenderness. The level of damage and pain varies.
If the irritation is significant enough, paralysis of the facial muscles can occur. Facial muscle paralysis due to facial nerve irritation from muscle spasms may be of the reversible or permanent type. In fact concurrently, there are nerve fibers which are reversible and there are some nerve fibers which have already progressed to the permanent injury status.
It has been used for many years in medicine to treat muscular spasm in cerebral palsy patients and spasms around the eye musclea. Botox is now recognized as an effective and safe treatment of so called expression lines (frown lines, Crow's feet and face lines) and excess perspiration or hyperhidrosis.
The Temporomandibular Joint connects the lower jaw to the skull and is responsible for the opening and closing of the mouth. The way your teeth fit together can affect the health of the TMJ (jaw joint). If the TMJ is dislocated, this can lead to many unpleasant symptoms as listed below.
Causes of TMD:
1-Clenching or grinding habits
2-Lower jaw too far back causing anterior displacement of the disc
3-Deep dental overbite
4-Missing teeth
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