{"id":1520,"date":"2011-02-13T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/tmj-syndrome-tmd-nocturnal-bruxism-treatments\/"},"modified":"2011-02-13T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T20:05:00","slug":"tmj-syndrome-tmd-nocturnal-bruxism-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/tmj-syndrome-tmd-nocturnal-bruxism-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"TMJ Syndrome-TMD-Nocturnal Bruxism Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: navy;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: navy;\">Common Methods of Treatment<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>\nThis brief piece outlines both conventional and alternative TMJ treatment approaches.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>mouth guards \/ appliances \/ splints<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>neuromuscular dentistry<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>reshaping tooth surfaces<\/p>\n<li>mouth massage\n<\/li>\n<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: navy;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: navy;\">Mouth Guards \/ Appliances \/ Splints<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The principle and hope of these kinds of devices is that by separating the teeth, they are prevented from grinding each other.   However, from the very name, &#8220;mouth guard,&#8221; we infer that this kind of  device doesn&#8217;t solve the problem, but only hopes to prevent tooth  damage as the problem &#8212; tight jaw muscles &#8212; continues.  It&#8217;s obvious &#8212; what the mouth is being guarded from is &#8230; the  mouth!  &#8220;Appliance&#8221; and &#8220;splint&#8221; are other names for &#8220;mouth guard&#8221;   <span style=\"color: navy;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: navy;\">Neuromuscular Dentistry<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Neuromuscular dentistry takes a more sophisticated technological  approach to the use of dental appliances.  By measuring electrical  activity of the muscles of biting and chewing, practitioners of this  approach identify patterns of movement, of position, and of dental  stress and then prepare an appliance to retrain the nervous system&#8217;s  control of those muscles.  The desired outcome common comes in a few months; cost ranges from $5,000 to $25,000.   <span style=\"color: navy;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: navy;\">Re-shaping Teeth<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Dentists have found that by changing the fit of upper and lower teeth,  they can alter neuromuscular control of the muscles of biting and  chewing and thereby alleviate TMJ Syndrome.  This approach posits that the cause of excessive jaw tension is poor fit  between upper and lower teeth.  Its method is to reshape tooth surfaces  by a polishing process to improve the fit.   This method does get results.  By changing the fit between teeth (by removing contours that prevent  uniform contact among teeth), the process changes ones experience of  biting and chewing.  This change introduces such a new experience of  biting and chewing that habitual patterns of muscular control are  interrupted, allowing new movement patterns to form.  However, it&#8217;s an indirect approach involving ongoing dental surgery in a  series of steps to a good fit.  While its effects are beneficial, it  misses the role of dental trauma in the formation of dental stress.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">\n<h4>Mouth Muscle Massage<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: black;\">While the approach sounds relevant, given what I have said above, the limitation of this approach is that jaw muscle muscle tension is maintained by the brain &#8212; it&#8217;s conditioning &#8212; not by the muscles, themselves.&nbsp; So, the results of mouth massage tend to be short-lived. <\/div>\n<h4><span style=\"color: blue;\">A New TMJ Therapeutic Approach<\/span> <\/h4>\n<h3><span style=\"color: navy; font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Understanding that we are dealing with conditioned postural reflexes  that govern muscular tension, one way to cure TMJ Syndrome\/TMD naturally  would be to retrain those conditioned postural reflexes &#8212; in effect,  to eliminate residual trauma reflex and to ease dental stress.  The video on <a href=\"http:\/\/somatics.com\/Treatment_for_TMJ.htm\">this page<\/a> demonstrates exactly that process &#8212; called Hanna Somatic Education<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.   The video shows changes in real-time &#8212; painless, fast, inexpensive,  and lasting &#8212; produced by dispelling automatic, reflexive contraction  patterns  and re-awakening control of free movement.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe various symptoms of TMD\/TMJ Syndrome &#8212; headaches, earaches,  bruxism, poor bite, tinnitis, postural changes, limited ability to open  or close the jaws &#8212; resolve into normal function.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">SEE VIDEO on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v7jQAsuBiXo\">TMD\/TMJ SELF-RELIEF<\/a>:<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><b>SEE A <a href=\"http:\/\/somatics.com\/TMJ_pain_treatment.htm\">TMD\/TMJ SYNDROME SELF-TREATMENT PROGRAM<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Add your comment &#8212; what you would like to ask or tell.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Methods of Treatment This brief piece outlines both conventional and alternative TMJ treatment approaches. mouth guards \/ appliances \/ splints neuromuscular dentistry reshaping tooth surfaces mouth massage Mouth Guards \/ Appliances \/ Splints The principle and hope of these kinds of devices is that by separating the teeth, they are prevented from grinding each &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/tmj-syndrome-tmd-nocturnal-bruxism-treatments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TMJ Syndrome-TMD-Nocturnal Bruxism Treatments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}