TMJ Services

I have noted previously that dentists have been charged with treating TMD/TMJ by default. The medical profession did not want anything to do with treating the joints attached to the jaw which is the substructure for the teeth.  Medical doctors do not want to have anything to do with teeth.  That is unfortunate because, if […]

As both a dentist (DDS), and a physician (MD) I understand and share equally the dental and medical professions with my dental and medical colleagues.  Having spent most of my career as an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in hospital operating rooms and hospital physician lounges talking shop with medical colleagues rather than in a dental […]

What is a tension headache?  A tension headache, as defined and classified by the International Classification of Headache Disorders (3rd Edition), is the most common type of the more than 100 different headache classifications.  According to medical experts, two of every three people suffer from tension headaches at some time in their life. Tension Headaches […]

What’s Meniere’s disease you ask?  Approximately 615,000 people in the United States have Meniere’s Disease.  The condition is named after the French physician Prosper Menière, who in an 1861 article described the main symptoms and was the first to suggest a single disorder for all of the symptoms, in the combined organ of balance and hearing […]