Excessive chewing of gum, including Mastic gum, can lead to temporomandibular dysfunction and jaw pain due to overuse of the jaw joint. — Whalespan
Excessive chewing of gum, including Mastic gum, can lead to temporomandibular dysfunction and jaw pain due to overuse of the jaw joint.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“I worry about Temple mular dysfunction I have bad experience with mastic gum I was buying it I love the kind of the the um primordial aspect of it's like a it's like a tree sap that you chew on it comes in this beautiful paper package and you know no plastics or anything you get it going in there and you feel like you're really like working it the same way my Bulldog costell would like work he to like teeth on like bricks and like he was just and you feel great and then all of a sudden you'd go and your jaw would kind of stick and then and then later you like w like my jaw really hurts or you feel something pop up in your joint pop
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