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Temporomandibular Joint Disorder is a single disorder from a single cause.  The cause is chronic inflammation within the temporomandibular joint, (TMJ).  The symptoms caused by chronic inflammation within the TMJ include frequent and/or recurring headache, earache, neck pain, jaw pain, ringing or buzzing in the ears, a feeling of fullness in the ears like the […]

Why am I having all this noise coming from my jaw joint?    If you are a patient with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD), it’s important that you understand what it really means to have clicking in your Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) and what it doesn’t mean.  Noise coming from the jaw joints is a sign that there […]

There are many reasons why it is important to know about Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, (TMD).  If you are one of the unfortunate people who suffer from one or more of the disparate symptoms associated with this disease, you first want to recognize the symptoms and know there is a simple solution.  The two most common […]

Doctors have been trying to solve the TMD (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder) conundrum for the better part of 90 years since an ENT surgeon first described the problem in 1934.  He theorized the cause was lack of posterior dental support, (missing posterior teeth).   The problem was then given to the dentists to solve because the medical […]

First let’s define our terms.    TMD is Temporomandibular Joint Disorder.  It is a disparate list of symptoms which include frequent and/or recurring headaches, earaches, jaw pain, neck pain, ringing in the ears, a feeling of fullness in the ears, (hearing loss), vertigo/dizziness, upper back and shoulders pain and tightness, arm/hand/finger tingling and numbness, and various […]

I began my research to discover the solution for Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, (TMD) in 2014. TMD had been a conundrum for the dental profession for 90 years. Before 2014 I performed over 2000 surgical procedures on the Temporomandibular Joint. Two-thirds of these I considered successful, and one-third returned within a year or two returned with […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD Temporomandibular Joint Disorder. (TMD) is a disease that generates very different responses from doctors, depending on who you ask. Dentists are supposed to know the most about TMD, but they are often the ones who know the least. Half of them don’t want to talk about TMD if you […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD The well-known symptoms of TMD include frequent and/or recurring headache, earache, neck pain, jaw pain, ringing in the ears, subjective hearing loss, vertigo, upper back and shoulder pain and tightness, arm/hand/finger tingling and numbness, and various kinds of jaw locking.  Forty-five percent of females suffer from one or more […]

In a previous article I discussed what dentists call night guards and their relationship to treat temporomandibular Joint Disorder, TMD. In summary, 50% of dentists make a night guard for patients who think they have TMD. If the dentist is asked how a night guard is helpful in treating TMD, they will mumble something about, […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD If you read the textbooks on TMD, or Google TMD, (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder), you will read or see that mainstream dentistry considers TMD a series of similar but unrelated disorders.  There is even a new specialty in dentistry that has been designated, “Oral Facial Pain”, (OFP), by the American […]