Archive for September, 2025

#150 “Ask Your Doctor” and TMD

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD Temporomandibular Joint Disorder. (TMD) is a disease that generates very different responses from doctors, depending on who you ask. Dentists are supposed to know the most about TMD, but they are often the ones who know the least. Half of them don’t want to talk about TMD if you […]

#149 TMD Can Have Fatal Consequences

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD The well-known symptoms of TMD include frequent and/or recurring headache, earache, neck pain, jaw pain, ringing in the ears, subjective hearing loss, vertigo, upper back and shoulder pain and tightness, arm/hand/finger tingling and numbness, and various kinds of jaw locking.  Forty-five percent of females suffer from one or more […]