TMJ Services

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD TMD, Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, is a disease with a disparate list of symptoms caused by chronic inflammation within the TMJ, Temporomandibular Joint.  TMD symptoms include frequent and/or recurring headache, earache, neck pain, jaw pain, tinnitus, subjective hearing loss, vertigo, upper back and shoulder pain and tightness, arm/hand/finger tingling and […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD       The Integration of Dentistry with Medicine and TMD  There is a growing movement within the dental profession to integrate dental services within the practice of medicine.  Many leaders in dentistry realize the time has come for patients to understand their oral health plays a profound part in their […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD   Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, TMD, is well known for its long list of disparate symptoms. The most common are frequent, and/or recurring headaches, earaches, jaw pain, neck pain, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), a feeling of fullness in the ears (subjective hearing loss), dizziness (vertigo), arm/hand/finger tingling and numbness, […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD It is not unusual for a patient to present to our office for Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) consultation missing a few posterior teeth in an otherwise totally healthy mouth. No other areas of decay or periodontal disease.  Just a few missing posterior teeth.  Most of the time they are […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD Science is the study of cause and effect. Medical scientists who look to find a solution for disease study cause and effect.   They make an observation, and then ask the question, “What is the cause of that observation?”  The observation is the “effect” of a “cause”.  What they really […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD TMD, Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, is a very common disease seen primarily in females.  Forty-Five percent of females in the United States suffer from one or more of the disparate symptoms of TMD.  The symptoms of TMD include frequent or recurring, headaches, earaches, neck pain, jaw pain, ringing in the […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD TMD, (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder) is a very common disease.  Forty-five percent of females in the United States suffer from TMD symptoms.  It should be classified as a medical disease like any other joint in the body, but it is treated exclusively by dentists.  The vast majority of dentists don’t […]

  By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD If you read the scientific literature regarding migraine headaches one thing stands out.  All the studies admit the cause of migraine headaches is unknown.  There are plenty of theories for sure, but the scientists who study migraines do not know the mechanisms within the brain that are responsible […]

By: Anthony Urbanek, DDS, MS, MD Medical Providers “State of the Art” TMD Diagnostic Skills My associate in our practice came into my office last week and asked if I had a few minutes to allow him to “vent” and de-stimulate about a patient he had just seen.  I said, “Sure, what’s the issue?”.    He […]

Medical technology has come a long way since the Middle Ages when bloodletting was one of the most common treatments available for various diseases. This archaic medial treatment was common in the United States, until the later part of the 19th century and a physician and founding father of U.S. medicine, Benjamin Rush, wrote of […]