You can wear a mouth guard it may or may not help. What you most likely have is TMJ. If you Google that it will explain it better than I ever could. Hope it helps.

Mine helped with clicking and popping, but I mean - it just a delay tactic, if something is serious, and it possible to fix it surgically, which it appears that it is not as they reserve surgeries for those that I would call "near death"...

Ed

I have had TMJ for over 20 years, and one of the no no's is chewing gum, eating tough pieces of meat, or anything that works the jaw excessively. I don't thnk anything cures it, but I was was eduated well by an orthodontist about OTHER things than can have an effect:

Keep your sinuses clear (a stuffy nose makes things worse), get enough sleep (or you may feel fatigue and pain the next day), lie down if you can during the day for few minutes (the head is very heavy to begin with.

Massage your jaw with a warm/ hot wash cloth daily to relax the clenched area, and take ibuprofen or aspirin (anit inflamatory meds) .there are also some good exercises you can find almost anywhere. HOPe this hops someone.a ust now trying the glucosssamin/condroitin AND at thesame time put on my air purifier- smoke will make everythng worse! HTH some of you out there
Katydid

Sorry my writing is off late at night- will return tommrrow with the rest of my tips katydid321

u can always edit your msg's; i got your point, i am glad to have you here, 20 years of experiencing this...

I cannot image living 20 years with this, but hope that medicine advances in regards to helping with people with TMJ problems, they keep coming out with new things, like joint replacements etc. I think the future holds natural cures - using stem cells they can grow tissues, maybe a new part of a jaw, a joint, a cartilage, that your body will not reject because it is made from your own cells.
I hope and pray that future will be brighter for all who are suffering. May God help all the beings that are suffering.