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II.
What is “TMJ”?
1. What is “TMJ”?
A. The term “TMJ” is dental slang
for a serious and painful degenerative jaw joint condition
that goes by many names:
TMJ syndrome, temporomandibular joint syndrome, temporomandiublar
joint pain – dysfunction syndrome, temporomandibular
disorder (TMD), Costen’s syndrome, etc. It is not a
disease but rather a condition. The initials stand for temporomandibular
joint, the anatomical name for the jaw joint back by the ear
where the lower jaw attaches to the base of the skull.
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