Enhanced TMJ Diagnosis & Therapy

Finding Pain Origins & Achieving Pain Freedom

Patients come to us, often after a referral from their dentist, with various degrees of pain and restrictions associated with TMJ (also known as TMD). Dental Specialty Group is set up to provide a high level of diagnosis and accompanying therapy to reserve many of these pain issues and oral problems

These solutions are possible only with the right quantity and quality of evidence. Our oral surgeons have the training and technology to do comprehensive diagnosis and treatment.

The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) allows the lower jaw (mandible) to function and flex. This small joint is located in front of the ear where the skull and lower jaw meet. TMJ or TMD problems are not uncommon and have a variety of symptoms. Our patients exhibit problems such as earaches, headaches and a limited ability to open their mouths. Some note they have clicking or grating sounds in the joint and feel pain when opening and closing their mouths. Some think they have 'sinus, stress or migraine' headaches and others have altered their breathing to compensate for the jaw's improper position.

TMJ can be present at birth, occur because of injury, develop over a lifetime, after other treatment, and for reasons associated with dental deterioration. The solution to disorders related to the TMJ or TMD is often finding the 'natural resting place' for the jaw. If the jaw does not rest in this way, it pulls and stresses the muscles surrounding it causing fatigue, spasms, and soreness.

Overtime the pressure builds up and the 'pain is activated' for various reasons like chewing, talking, and even breathing. For example, if our dental patients are missing teeth, your jaw is no longer supported in its previous state. The pain might not develop for many years - but the jaw and face muscles will need to compensate. If our patients have had this condition from birth or as part of just natural growth (teeth and jaw never matched up) the effects are even more complex.

This complexity - determining what is actually causing the pain - requires more than educated guesses. Dental Specialty Group oral surgeons use the i-CATâ„¢ 3D imaging technology to completely map out your facial structure, musculature, and bone (jaw) structure to develop the most accurate evidence to proceed.

Get details on this amazing dental technology that maps out these formerly unseen contributors to TMJ disorder: Take the i-CATâ„¢ Tour.

Call to find out how Dental Specialty Group can help you and your dentist reverse your TMJ health. 615-832-6460