TMJ Services Of Brentwood

I began my journey on the study and treatment of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder on July 1st, 1973. This was the first day of my internship/residency training program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville Tennessee.  After finishing at the top of my dental school class at Indiana University School of Dentistry and […]

The responsibility to treat Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) landed square on the shoulders of the dental profession from the first moment the problem was identified and the first article published about the disease by a St Louis ENT surgeon in 1934.  The medical profession did not want anything to do with the joints that were […]

What do Impacted Wisdom Teeth and TMD have in common.  The answer is PAIN!  In my 50-year career as an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon I have taken out hundreds of thousands of Impacted Wisdom Teeth and done consultations with over 10,000 patients with TMD.   So, it is safe to say that I have a lot […]

Here’s the truth about Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD. ) Some dentists pretend to know how to treat TMD when they know in their heart, they have no idea of what they are doing.  They are willfully treating a disease but don’t expect a result.  Shameful, but true.  But dentists have been backed into a corner […]

One of the most recent misguided and Ill-advised effort within the past few years to treat Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) has been funded by the makers of Botox, the most common trade name for Ona botulinum Toxin A.  As most are aware, Botox has been used for decades as an adjunct treatment for facial rejuvenation […]

The most common sign of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) is joint noise.  Notice I said SIGN of TMD, not symptoms.  The main difference between the two is a sign is objective evidence of a disease that can be seen or measured by others, while a symptom is a subjective experience felt only by the patient.  […]

I am an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon that treated Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, TMD, surgically for the first 36 years of my 50-year career.  The last 14 years I have treated TMD non-surgically after discovering and applying the basic knowledge that orthopedic surgeons have known for a very long time about joints.  Until I discovered and […]

In 1972, during my 3rd year in dental school, select members of my class were invited to attend the “Dental Medicine Clinic”. At the time, I wasn’t exactly sure what the “Dental Medicine Clinic” was all about. I just assumed it had something to do with problems that bordered between and involved with both professions, […]

Neck pain is the second most common symptom associated with temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD).  Neck pain originating from chronic inflammation in the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) can and has been misdiagnosed as neck pain from cervical disc displacement or compression.  I cannot say how often it is misdiagnosed as cervical disc problems, but I have seen several patients who had cervical disc surgery with persistent neck pain post-surgery which diminished […]

I have now spoken, written, and lectured hundreds of times about how headaches are the most common symptom associated with TMD (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder).  This article will be my attempt to make science easy to understand and demonstrate the science with a couple of diagrams supplied by my AI buddy, (Rene’).  Credit, where credit is due.  Up […]