OUR TECHNOLOGY / TMJ Diagnostic & Treatment

Temporomandibular Joint Disorder is the term used to describe the conditions or full array of symptoms such as difficulty, pain or both when opening your mouth; getting your jaw stuck, locked, or that it goes out; difficulty, pain, or both when chewing, talking, or using your jaw; noises in the jaw joint; jaws that regularly feel stiff, tired, or tight; pain in or about the ears, temples, or cheeks; frequent headaches, neckaches or unexplained toothaches.

This term is used as its symptoms includes the jaw joints or the muscles that controls them. These two joints, one on either side of your head, serve as the connection between your mandible and your skull. The mandible is not actually part of the skull, but rather a separate entity that is literally hung by muscles, tendons, and ligaments. When these joints suffer a dysfunction, they can cause many problems such as the ones described earlier.

TMJ symptoms can be very frustrating. Patients suffering from TMJ have not found relief from their primary care providers or other specialists so they have to learn to live with it. The goal of the following diagnostic tests is to provide individual and precise treatment plans that most often lead to elimination of pain.