Archive for August, 2026

#197 We Don’t Need a Specialty to Treat TMD

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 […]

#196 Changing Paradigm and TMD

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, […]