TMJ Services
#111 When You Can’t Treat TMD/J Symptoms with an Oral Device
My Associate, Dr. Urbina, stepped into my office last week and asked me to see a patient he was currently examining with typical TMD/J symptoms. The patient could only open her mouth to about one finger width and could not eat anything other than very soft or pureed food. Her x-ray also showed evidence of […]
#110 Purchasing a Device Versus Solving a Problem with a Service
Not long ago I walked into an examining room to check on a patient who had used our oral device and protocol for a total of 8 weeks. Whether the scheduled appointment is at the 3 week, 2 month, 4 month, or 6 month interval, I always ask the same question. “On average, what percentage […]
#109 TMD/TMJ Disrupter versus the Status Quo
“Status Quo” is a Latin phrase meaning “The Existing State of Affairs”. Let’s start by describing the current existing state of affairs regarding TMD/TMJ. No one, doctor and patient alike, will disagree that TMD/TMJ is a conundrum, a confusion, an enigma, and has been since the first description of the disease in medical literature in […]
#108 The Integration of Dentistry into Medicine and TMD/TMJ
“Status Quo” is a Latin phrase meaning “The Existing State of Affairs”. Let’s start by describing the current existing state of affairs regarding TMD/TMJ. No one, doctor and patient alike, will disagree that TMD/TMJ is a conundrum, a confusion, an enigma, and has been since the first description of the disease in medical literature in […]
#107 “OMG, I Can’t Stand the Pain Anymore”
The title of this article is a quote from a recent patient sitting in our examination room during her TMD/TMJ consultation. She had endured 20 years of headaches, earaches, neck pain, jaw pain, ringing in her ears, subjective hearing loss, vertigo, upper back and shoulder pain, arm hand finger tingling and numbness, and inability to […]
#106 Treating TMD is Easy when you Understand the Cause
TMD (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder) is a devastating disease, not just because the symptoms ruin the person’s ability to enjoy life, but because historically no one could figure out the mechanism causing the symptoms. This left the patient without hope of finding a solution, which frequently created a feeling of depression, which exacerbated the fear and […]
#105 Successful TMD Treatment Relies on Patient Compliance
Having treated over 4000 TMD/TMJ patients successfully using a non-surgical device and protocol, I consider myself an expert on the problem. I have experienced just about everything a doctor can experience treating this devastating disease. I really enjoy the service we provide because of the frequent patients who thank me profusely, ask if they can […]
#104 TMD/TMJ and OSA, Why All the Confusion?
TMD/TMJ is the acronym for Temporomandibular Joint Disorder/Temporomandibular Joint, and OSA is the acronym for Obstructive Sleep Apnea. TMD/TMJ is a disease seen most often in women and defined by its symptoms, including frequent and/or recurring headaches, earaches, neck pain, jaw pain, ringing in the ears, a feeling of fullness in the ears, vertigo, upper […]
#103 What’s so Important about Separating the Posterior Teeth?
One of the earliest patients I ever treated with the Urbanek Device and Protocol was a woman who had just about all the usual symptoms for 30 years. She was experiencing chronic severe headaches, earaches, jaw and neck pain, ringing in the ears, a feeling of fullness in the ears, frequent episodes of vertigo, upper […]
#102 Screening for TMD/TMJ
Included with your annual or semiannual visit with your primary care physician you routinely do some lab tests. Sometimes your physician wants you to give some blood, urine, or maybe some x-rays taken. These tests are usually done as a method to screen for diseases that may or may not have already displayed symptoms. They […]