Do you suffer from lower jaw pain? Does this jaw pain keep you up at night and make you want to shoot yourself? Is the jaw pain excruciating and radiate up around the ear area or even cause tooth pain? If so, you might have TMJ.
What is TMJ
TMJ is a disorder of the temporomandibular joint that causes inflammation and incredible pain of the join. This pain can radiate up into the ear, face and neck, causing tooth pain, headaches and stiff and sore jaw muscles making it hard to chew or open the mouth.
The temporomandibular joint is the joint that connects the lower jaw to the skull. This is located right below the ear. The TM joint is the most complex joint in the human body because it’s the only joint that moves up, down and left to right. Because of this, this joint can become weak and damaged leading to this disorder that causes extreme pain.
TMJ starts with lower jaw pain, and be caused by many different reasons. Some of these are trauma (car accident, a punch to the jaw, etc…) to the joint, extended amount of stress (stress causes us to clinch the jaw) or hereditary causes such as arthritis, etc… No matter what caused it for you, the pain is all the same. It’s hard to sleep, eat, or even be happy!
There are many ways to cure your lower jaw pain, but some are more involved than others. If you have extreme cases of TMJ, you can look at surgery, although I wouldn’t recommend this. This surgery can cost $50,000 and most insurance won’t cover it. Besides, who wants to have their jaw broken and reconstructed?
I am a long time TMJ sufferer that has found some exercises to do at home that builds up the weak and damaged joint so that I no longer have lower jaw pain for longer than a few minutes at most.
Author: David E. Miller
Jaw Pain/Clicking Jaw and TMJ Treatments | Best Syndication
Once TMD has been diagnosed as the underlying cause of jaw pain by a qualified neuromuscular dentist (accompanied or not by the clicking or popping sounds), treatment should begin with the most conservative approaches.
Overcoming Jaw Pain | Best Syndication
Only a small number of dentists are trained in neuromuscular dentistry, a field which includes the diagnosis and treatment of TMD. While general dentistry focuses on the health and well-being of the teeth, neuromuscular dentistry focuses on the relationship between nerves, … With extensive training in this important area of dentistry, he can diagnose TMD and devise a long-term plan to correct your jaw alignment and give you relief from pain and discomf
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