Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon.

And today on our five-minute Friday,

let's talk all about Botox for the masseters. The massators are muscles that clench and chew.

They're positioned at the back of your mandible or your jawbone. And they are responsible for

clenching, grinding, chewing, TMJ and sometimes headaches.

And if you've ever had TMJ problems, you know that we can get those from unconsciously chewing at night.

When you grind in your sleep, it's called bruxism. We also get that from clenching as we're going about our daily

lives, like sitting in traffic or clenching through a Zoom meeting. And it's a very unconscious

thing that we do, but we tend to really put a lot of facial muscle tension into our masseter muscles.

And in some ways, it creates a really strong angle of the mandible for men and male models they actually

clenched down on their back teeth and their masseters to make that sharp kind of protruding angular

look so that's a good trick if your guy who's listening and you want to look really photogenic

but in other ways they make us look too thick over time the masseter

muscle can overgrow or hypertrophy and become thickened and I think that as we get

into our 40s and 50s we definitely get this thickening of the lower face some of its

hormone changes some of it's getting a little weight

and padding in our faces. And some of it is years of clenching and grinding and just kind of

the tension of life building up in these masseter muscles. So what can you do about masseter

overgrowth or hypertrophy and TMJ problems? You can definitely Botox your masseter overgrowth or hypertrophy and TMJ problems you can definitely Botox your

masseter muscles and TMJ is one of those really significant problems temporal

mandibular joint problems that joint that hinges your jaw to your skull is called your

TMJ joint and as a headneck, I see lots of patients who have

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