There are two sets of large muscles that can cause pain in your jaw and the area around your jaw joint: the massater muscles and the temporalis muscles. Check out the Category for Jaw Pain on this website for more articles on the massater and other muscles that can be involved.
You can feel the muscle that crosses your jaw joint if you place your fingers over the joint and pretend you are chewing. That’s the massater. You have two–one on each side.
You can also feel the temple muscles by placing your fingers on the sides of your head in line with your eyebrows and pretending to chew. Again, this muscle is on each side of your head. It the temporalis muscle.
There is a depression in your skull on each side and the temporalis muscle is packed in there. It’s actually a pretty good sized muscle.
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