Archive for June, 2026

Many would call me an empath.  I don’t like to see people hurt and in pain.  As a surgeon, I found myself very uncomfortable doing surgery that I knew would cause a lot of post-surgical pain.  Thank God for Demerol and Morphine.  Forty-Eight hours on pain medication after the most complicated surgery, the patient was able to say that the pain was tolerable. Once the pain was on the down slope, it […]

I am sorry to say that the profession of dentistry has missed the mark after 70 years of trying to figure out how to treat Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD).  For 70 years it has been a disorganized journey because the scientific investigators in the dental establishment claimed the Temporomandibular Joint, (TMJ) was different from all the other joints […]

This is a profound question.  Is there really any difference between Migraine headaches caused by inflammation of the Temporomandibular Joint, (TMJ), better known as Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, (TMD).  After successfully treating over 5000 patients with TMD, I am profoundly impressed and disenchanted with the number of people who have been diagnosed by a physician as having Migraine Headaches who present to […]

“There is a place for surgery in treating TMD, but it’s not surgery on the TMJ”  In the 1980’s, just about every Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon was doing surgery on the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) in an attempt to help the thousands of patients who suffered from the symptoms of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD).  The textbooks, annual meetings, […]

If the World Health Organization compiled a list of all the diseases on the planet, TMD (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder) would undoubtedly be on the list as one, if not the number one, least understood disease.  This would not be because there is a lack of information about the disease. It would not be because there is a lack of scientific studies […]