TMJ Disorder
Temporomandibular joint is the axial joint that hooks up the lower jaw with skull’s temporal bone. These joints maintains jaw plasticity. The jaw can smoothly make up-down and side to side movements along with enabling a person to chew, yawn or talk.
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TMJ Disorder
Temporomandibular joint is the axial joint that hooks up the lower jaw with skull’s temporal bone. These joints maintains jaw plasticity. The jaw can smoothly make up-down and side to side movements along with enabling a person to chew, yawn or talk.
What is ‘TMJ’?
The temporomandibular joint is the pivot joint that hooks up the lower jaw with the skull’s temporal bone. These joints regulate jaw movement. The jaw can smoothly make up-down and side to side movements along with enabling a person to chew, yawn or talk. There are muscles around the jaw joint too. These muscles control jaw position and movement.
What is ‘TMJ’?
The temporomandibular joint is the pivot joint that hooks up the lower jaw with the skull’s temporal bone. These joints regulate jaw movement. The jaw can smoothly make up-down and side to side movements along with enabling a person to chew, yawn or talk. There are muscles around the jaw joint too. These muscles control jaw position and movement.
what is ‘TMJ’ disorder?
Temporomandibular Joint Disorder refers to jaw disorders. “TMJ Disorder” occurs when trouble arises in jaw, jaw joints facial muscles that regulate jaw movements or teeth. TMJ Disorder creates dysfunction in jaw muscles thereby causing excruciating pain while moving the jaw. Pain is the main syndrome of TMJ Disorder that occurs in regular cycles.
Reasons
- Unbalanced chewing
- Spasm of jaw muscle
- Overuse of jaw muscles
Symptoms
- Headache/Earache
- Experiencing pain in jaw, neck or face.
- Jaw muscles get stiff
- Locking of the jaw movement
what is ‘TMJ’ disorder?
Temporomandibular Joint Disorder refers to jaw disorders. “TMJ Disorder” occurs when trouble arises in jaw, jaw joints facial muscles that regulate jaw movements or teeth. TMJ Disorder creates dysfunction in jaw muscles thereby causing excruciating pain while moving the jaw. Pain is the main syndrome of TMJ Disorder that occurs in regular cycles.
Reasons
- Unbalanced chewing
- Spasm of jaw muscle
- Overuse of jaw muscles
Symptoms
- Headache/Earache
- Experiencing pain in jaw, neck or face.
- Jaw muscles get stiff
- Locking of the jaw movement
WHY US?
Sometimes the pain vanishes with little treatment; however, if TMJ Disorder specialist is not consulted it may lead to long-term problems.
Fine Feather Dental has distinctly skilled TMJ Disorder specialists who are capable of removing your ora-facial pain.
TMJ pain is mostly temporary but if not taken care of then it can progress to headache, back ache & lower back muscle also.
WHY US?
Sometimes the pain vanishes with little treatment; however, if TMJ Disorder specialist is not consulted it may lead to long-term problems.
Fine Feather Dental has distinctly skilled TMJ Disorder specialists who are capable of removing your ora-facial pain.
TMJ pain is mostly temporary but if not taken care of then it can progress to headache, back ache & lower back muscle also.
Conservative Treatments
Jaw Relaxation: In the initial therapy, the jaw is relaxed by utilizing warm compresses. If there are any dental injuries, then instead of warm compresses we make use of ice packs. Along with this, pain-relieving medications are also prescribed. Jaw relaxation can heal temporomandibular joints. In this treatment, we also follow stress-reduction techniques which will release stress as well as relax your jaw and body. The following care is expected from the patient’s side:
- Consume only soft foods and avoid chewy foods.
- Avoid eating chewing gum or hard candy.
- Avoid wide opening of your mouth.
- Practice muscle stretching or relaxation exercises exactly as guided by our TMJ specialist.
Fitting Splint: A splint or bite plate of plastic is fitted over your teeth by our specialists. This acts as a guard between the upper and lower teeth. This helps in:
- Reducing Clenching
- Teeth grinding
- Ease muscle tension
Conservative Treatments
Jaw Relaxation: In the initial therapy, the jaw is relaxed by utilizing warm compresses. If there are any dental injuries, then instead of warm compresses we make use of ice packs. Along with this, pain-relieving medications are also prescribed. Jaw relaxation can heal temporomandibular joints. In this treatment, we also follow stress-reduction techniques which will release stress as well as relax your jaw and body. The following care is expected from the patient’s side:
- Consume only soft foods and avoid chewy foods.
- Avoid eating chewing gum or hard candy.
- Avoid wide opening of your mouth.
- Practice muscle stretching or relaxation exercises exactly as guided by our TMJ specialist.
Fitting Splint: A splint or bite plate of plastic is fitted over your teeth by our specialists. This acts as a guard between the upper and lower teeth. This helps in:
- Reducing Clenching
- Teeth grinding
- Ease muscle tension
Invasive Treatments
TMJ Arthrocentesis procedure
Invasive techniques are used when conservative techniques fail to ease your problem. In this technique two needles are inserted in temporomandibular joint so as to wash it thoroughly. One needle is attached with cleansing solution filled syringe. This fluid exists through the other syringe.
This method suits many and the pain gets back to normal. Sometimes, pain relieving medications are also injected in similar way.
Surgery
We generally avoid advising this treatment to our valuable patients as it is irreversible. We apply it in extreme cases where the joints in the jaw are replaced with artificial implants.
Invasive Treatments
TMJ Arthrocentesis procedure
Invasive techniques are used when conservative techniques fail to ease your problem. In this technique two needles are inserted in temporomandibular joint so as to wash it thoroughly. One needle is attached with cleansing solution filled syringe. This fluid exists through the other syringe.
This method suits many and the pain gets back to normal. Sometimes, pain relieving medications are also injected in similar way.
Surgery
We generally avoid advising this treatment to our valuable patients as it is irreversible. We apply it in extreme cases where the joints in the jaw are replaced with artificial implants.
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