JAW JOINT PAIN (TMD)

Temporomandibular joint (TMD, lower jaw joint) is a dynamic living tissue which connects the lower jaw to the skull. Jaw joint disorder is the syndrome that holds the pain in masticatory muscles and the dysfunction. Jaw joint disorders have affected majority of people today. It is caused by adjustment disorder between the joint surface and the disc.

LOCATION

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AFTERCARE

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DURATION

2 Hours

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Symptoms include:

• Feeling pain during while opening and closing mouth

• Restricted mouth opening or getting blocked

• Neck pain or stiffness

• Headache (should not be confused with migraine headache)

• Severe pain during chewing and on the face

• Perceived pain while closing teeth on each other

• Quick feeling of tiredness in the jaw while chewing

• Having difficulty to open the mouth generally in the morning and pain

• Difficulty in Stretching (Yawning)

• Ear pain or ringing in the ears, roaring-like sounds, the feeling of       congestion and pressure

• Sudden changes in the form of combination of upper and lower teeth

• Asymmetry in the face due to hyperplasia of the facial muscles

• The deviation in the jaw during mouth opening (sliding)
  

Causes Include:

• Direct trauma to the jaw or to the joints (a result of accident or impulse)

• Unilateral chewing habit

• Missing teeth

• Teeth clenching and grinding

• Stress, depression etc

• Non-physiological tooth closing

• Developmental defects of the joint (hypoplasia etc.)

• Degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis, arthrosis

• Autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus

• Orthodontic disorders

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