Red light into the starved jaw muscle. So you eat, laugh and yawn without thinking about your jaw
Your jaw muscle is not too tense, it is starved: every clench squeezes its own blood supply shut. The jaw pad sends 660 nm red light through your cheek into the muscle, hands-free, at home in the evening, with nothing in your mouth.
Eating, laughing and yawning have become things you manage
People with jaw pain describe the same days. One wrote: "I can't yawn without my entire jaw shifting and cracking." Another wrote: "To eat a burger again. To kiss my husband and smile and laugh, again, without pain"
And the things they reach for stop working when they stop holding them. One wrote: "I was trying massage, ice and heat, pain meds, but they would only provide temp relief."
Your jaw muscle is not too tense. It is starved.
Put two fingers on your cheek, just in front of your ear, and clench. The bulge that hardens is the jaw muscle. Hold it for ten seconds and feel it tire. It does this in your sleep and while you concentrate, and you feel none of it. One person wrote: "I do it unconsciously and then catch myself and try to relax but it def happens almost all day long."
Each clench squeezes the muscle's own blood supply shut. When researchers measured the oxygen inside the jaw muscle during clenching, it dropped. A muscle starved of oxygen runs out of energy, and a muscle with no energy cannot let go. That is why it aches, and why it hurts most when you bite, laugh or yawn.
Your guard protects your teeth and puts nothing into the muscle. Your heat pack warms the surface and goes cold. Neither one feeds it.
What red light does inside the jaw muscle
Red light at 660 nm passes through your cheek into the jaw muscle.
The muscle cells take in the light and make energy, and the small vessels open so blood and oxygen come back.
With its energy and blood back, the fed muscle lets go, and the ache eases.
See the jaw padThe jaw pad holds that red light on both sides of your jaw, hands-free
A soft black strap wraps under your chin and up both cheeks and closes with a flap on top of your head. Red light at 660 nm sits on both cheeks, along the jaw and under the chin, right over the muscle. A clock button sets the timer, and a flame button adds gentle warmth if you like it.
You keep your night guard for your teeth, and the muscle that aches gets fed each evening, so you eat, laugh and yawn without bracing for it.
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An evening with it: wrap it on, set the timer, pick up your book
After dinner you wrap the strap on and close the flap. You press the clock to set the timer.
Then you read, watch something or lie back with both hands free while the red light works on the muscle. When the timer ends, it switches off by itself, and you take it off.
Nothing goes in your mouth, and nothing is left for your hand to hold.
See the jaw padWear it for 60 evenings. If your jaw is not better, send it back for a full refund.
The jaw pad is $89. Shipping is free and it is delivered in 7 to 12 days.
A dentist-made night guard runs $300 to $400, and it is made for your teeth.
Every order includes a free welcome kit: a jaw massage roller, and the evening jaw routine, a digital guide with a 5-minute jaw release, where the pad sits, and the ten-second daytime check.
If your jaw is not better after 60 evenings, you send it back and get your money back.
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Why we made it
We read what people with jaw pain write. The same thing came up again and again: they are handed a guard for their teeth, or told to relax, or told to use a warm compress.
Then we read what researchers measured inside the jaw muscle. The clench squeezes its own blood supply shut, the oxygen drops and the muscle runs out of energy. Nothing people were handed fed it. The guard protects the teeth. The compress goes cold. Being told to relax does nothing for a muscle that clenches in your sleep.
So we made the jaw pad to feed that muscle: a soft strap that holds red light on both sides of the jaw while you rest, so the muscle gets its energy and blood back and you get your meals, your laugh and your mornings back.
Start with the page that matches what you have tried or been told
Red light for the jaw muscle, worn at home in the evening.