Mine started directly after having a wisdom tooth removed.

Shortly after gum surgery.

suprizingly enough thats usually how it is.

No clue. I have never had dental surgery or dental problems of any kind at all. I've never even had a cavity.

Have had it all my life. Mine started as a clicky Jaw.
Lorraine(lorratt)

yeah i have had it all my life too-------but what really brought it out was getting hit by a car

I dont know how mine started, perhaps dentist, as after one session with a dentist my jaw felt out of place.
but then I am a major stresser and clench my jaw through out the day.

A dentist did it to me getting out a wisdom tooth. He also injured the very upper part of my neck called the atlas. i am small and he was a big dentist. he dislocated the jaw, where it goes into the head by the ear.thats how it all began. and i can almost prove it too. cindy

I voted stress, but I'm not sure that's really the "cause." I just woke up one morning in pain and locked, but my bite was very bad even tho I had braces as a teen, structurally my jaw is not fully developed, I was a serious wind musician and had taken a very nasty fall the year before. But I also had just started a job that was new and stressful, and my closest relative got suddenly ill and died with no known cause except old age (72). So actually, who knows. I'm just thankful to God that my pain is manageable.

God bless...
Carol

Carol, i bet playing the instrument, sort of did it, almost like a repetitious injury kind of thing. I HOPE you took up another insrument for fun? i play keyboard. love cindy

I had a fractured jaw many years ago that was not picked up on X-Ray and developed arthritis in both joints.

Samara

how did you fracture it?

My ex husband broke my jaw !!

I hope you smacked him back lol

Let just say i got my revenge