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Commonly Asked Questions about TMJ Treatments for Adults.
Q: Do adults who have serious Temporomandibular Joint pain-dysfunction-headache
problems always need orthodontic treatment?
A: Not always. Adult Temporomandibular Joint patients
will need their bites realigned with “splints” and
removable European-style Functional Appliance techniques
to get their lower jaws (mandibles) to bite and work farther
forward just that little bit to get all that pressure off
the nerves and arteries in the back part of their jaw sockets.
This is what eliminates the headaches (sometimes in as
little as 1-2 weeks) and other jaw muscle and facial pains,
and helps heal the damaged jaw joint components back to
normal. Once the jaw joints are fully healed and all the
headaches, jaw pains and other symptoms have been eliminated,
the bite can then, and only then, be perfected by means
of capping some of the back teeth, or by restoring the bite
with other bite restorative techniques. Braces are not always
needed.
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