Archive for January, 2025

First, let’s define our terms.  TMD/TMJ is disease with multiple symptoms.  The most common symptoms are headache, earache, jaw pain, neck pain, ringing in the ears, a feeling of fullness in the ears, vertigo, upper back and shoulder pain, arm/hand/finger tingling and numbness and various kinds of jaw locking.  Noise from the jaw joints is […]

This is the second in a series of articles written to dispel the confusions, inaccuracies, fixed ideas, and poorly constructed theories presented as facts concerning Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, (TMD).  Today, we’ll focus on joint noises.  Noise emanating from the jaw joints is the most common sign, and or symptom of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder. Notice I […]

This is the first in a multipart series intending to discover and uncover all the lies, confusions, historical nonsense, and what is now referred to as misinformation regarding TMD/TMJ.  The number of parts in this series is unknown and cannot be estimated except to say there is a lot to document.  I began my education […]

Burning tongue or other less than comfortable sensations of the tongue is a relatively rare phenomenon. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, Section on Otolaryngology, burning mouth syndrome occurs in about 90 to 120 of 100 000 people, although some studies report a frequency as high as 18% of the population. Women are […]

Before answering this question, I need to first define Insurance.  According to the dictionary, “Insurance is a practice or arrangement by which a company or government agency provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a premium”.    There is a huge difference between medical insurance and […]