When your teeth are encountering problems, they need not essentially be in pain. There are several other problems too and in fact they may not be even be associated with the teeth.
When your teeth are encountering some problem,
they need not essentially be in pain. There are several other problems too and in fact they may not be even be associated with the teeth. They are related to face, neck as well as other portions close by. When any of these regions goes out of balance, bite turns misaligned and pain is produced. For curing these sorts of problems, a recent branch of dentistry has come up known as neuromuscular dentistry. This dentistry takes care of chiefly TMJ pain firstly by recovering the lost equilibrium of the facial constituents and next attempts to achieve malocclusion of the bite to an optimal level.
TMJ problems
TMJ pain points to soreness in jaw, head and face owing to misalignment of the musculoskeletal system of face, back and neck, especially the TMJ i.e. temporomandibular joints which fix jaws on each side of the face. If the bite is misaligned, TMJ pain exacerbates and facial and neck musles are strained due to which attrition of jaw joint can happen. TMJ troubles also occur owing to poor posture.
TMJ symptoms
There are a number of TMJ symptoms such as ringing in the ear, headache, ear congestion, weakened hearing, dizziness, vertigo, insomnia, visual impairment, pain in arm, shoulder, back and neck muscles, restless leg syndrome, pain around and behind eyes, restrained movment of jaw facial pain, jaw pain, changed bite, chipped teeth, worn teeth, sensitive teeth, clicking and popping of jaw and myofacial pain (fibromyalgia).
Diagnosis
The above signs and symptoms are of such sorts that they can occur by any other condition. You also have no source to understand that they are because of your misaligned bite. Therefore it is utterly vital to find out the TMJ conditions if any. If you expeience such a sign, you need to consult your dentist to realize about the presence of or eliminate the likelihood of TMJ problems.
Treatment
Treatment of TMJ conditions is done by using neuromuscular dentistry. This line of treatment comprises of K7 evaluation system which contains non-invasive electronic instruments that assess activity of muscles of face and jaws. Seeing this the dentist is able to find out if the bite is cause for the TMJ conditions or it is just a part of the condition. This includes Jaw Motion Analysis (JMA) or Computerized Mandibular Scanning (CMS) to measure jaw movements, electromyography (EMG) to guage muscular activity and Electro-Sonography (ESG) to gaugetemporomandibular joint sounds. If there is joint derangement, it can diagnosed by JVA or Joint Vibration Analysis.
After the rest position of jaw is found, the dentist selects the ideal setting of lower to upper jaw. Orthotics are generally brought into use for 3 to 6 months for all day long for the realignment of jaw.
Two sections of neuromuscular dentistry
Neuromuscular dentistry is applied normally in 2 sections. The first section is for relieving symptoms or repairing bites or malocclusions. The second part can contain keeping on the use of lower orthosis, revival dentistry for finding new bite position, neuromuscular functional orthodontics or combination of any two of these.
So when you require a treatment of neuromuscular dentistry, you must find it out with your dentist and undergo the treatment well in time whereby you can skip forthcoming worsening of your disorder.
