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Tinnitus, (Ringing or buzzing in the ears), Subjective Hearing Loss, (The feeling like you ears are full of water or you are in an airplane and can’t clear your ears), and Vertigo,(a constant or intermittent sense of dizziness) are all well- known and accepted symptoms of TMD/TMJ.  Although they are very common symptoms individually or […]

Does the title of this article sound strange and unlikely or even impossible.  Doctors have been treating migraine headaches for decades with a whole assortment of drugs.  They couldn’t possibly be prescribing all these drugs for migraine headaches, each connected to a long list of undesirable side effects, without knowing the actual cause, could they?  […]

Last Tuesday I walked into a consultation room to meet a new patient.  As I walked through the door the emotion of anger was palpable.  There were two people in the room, a young man about 30 sitting in the dental chair and a young woman sitting in the corner.  As I introduced myself, I […]

I have written extensively about how the symptoms of TMD/TMJ influence your life. No one likes to experience constant or recurring headaches, earaches, neck pain, ringing in the ears, subjective hearing loss, vertigo, upper back and shoulder pain, arm/hand/finger tingling and numbness and various kinds of jaw locking. Depending on how often and to what […]

Wow!  Those are some big words for the patient to understand so it’s best that I define both. Bruxism is the technical term for clenching and grinding the teeth. Bruxism is one of the three causes of TMD/TMJ because the constant and involuntary motion of the jaws eventually cause damage and chronic inflammation within the […]

If you are reading this article, I assume you have been diagnosed with TMD/TMJ, have symptoms of TMD/TMJ, or suspect you have TMD/TMJ. I know a lot about TMD/TMJ.  I have been treating patients with TMD/TMJ for more than 46 years. As an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, I treated TMD/TMJ surgically for 34 of those […]

That sounds like an odd question unless you are one of the millions of people who have been shuffled from doctor to doctor trying to figure out what is going on with their weird collection of symptoms.  Most patients with TMD/TMJ do not know the symptoms that are ruining their life have anything to do […]

Bruxism is the technical name for clenching and grinding the teeth.  Apparently, this problem has been known for a long time and is appropriately referenced in the Bible, Mathew 8: 5-13. I have often wondered how many millions of people suffered from the symptoms of TMD not knowing the relationship between inflammation within the TMJ, […]

This is a very good question. Generally speaking, when it comes to understanding and treating TMD/TMJ, there are as many opinions as there are doctors who treat the problem, and generally speaking, everyone knows when treating TMD/TMJ, nothing works for very long. There are many treatment avenues that give temporary relief such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatories […]

Whether you are a doctor who currently treats TMD or a patient who has the diagnosis of TMD, there is a 100% certainty that you think TMD is complicated to treat. From the doctor’s perspective they have learned there are hundreds of various opinions and thousands of academic articles written on the problem.  Trying to […]