Archive for July, 2025

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD It is not unusual for a patient to present to our office for Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) consultation missing a few posterior teeth in an otherwise totally healthy mouth. No other areas of decay or periodontal disease.  Just a few missing posterior teeth.  Most of the time they are […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD Science is the study of cause and effect. Medical scientists who look to find a solution for disease study cause and effect.   They make an observation, and then ask the question, “What is the cause of that observation?”  The observation is the “effect” of a “cause”.  What they really […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD TMD, Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, is a very common disease seen primarily in females.  Forty-Five percent of females in the United States suffer from one or more of the disparate symptoms of TMD.  The symptoms of TMD include frequent or recurring, headaches, earaches, neck pain, jaw pain, ringing in the […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD TMD, (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder) is a very common disease.  Forty-five percent of females in the United States suffer from TMD symptoms.  It should be classified as a medical disease like any other joint in the body, but it is treated exclusively by dentists.  The vast majority of dentists don’t […]