Most people have difficulty consciously reaching a truly relaxed state, because the muscles controling the mandible may be over worked in attempting to maintain the position “programmed” by the brain.
Since there is a relationship between the teeth, jaw joints, head, and neck muscles a problem in any of these areas will affect the others. Neuromuscular Dentistry (NMD) is the science of occlusion that objectively measures the physiologic functions affected by occlusion to achieve an optimal relationship between the skull and the mandible.