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Overview. 1  A slipped disc in your jaw can cause painful temporomandibular joint (TMJ)-related problems, including a âpoppingâ noise that originates inside the jaw joint. 2  Friction is a massage exercise. 3  The jaw stretching exercise may relieve tension in tight jaw muscles forced out of position.
Your bone stays thick and tall when your teeth are there stimulating your bone every day. If you lose your teeth your jaw bone shrinks from disuse. This also happens when you are only missing even one tooth! If you lose one tooth, the bone in the area of that tooth shrinks while the other areas stay intact.he following x-rays show two extremes for purposes of educating you if you are considering having dental implants or are about to lose a tooth. The first shows my jaw and the second shows a jaw with almost complete bone loss.