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TMJ bite correction
How splint and braces help to get stable bite for Tmj patients? My splint therapy was continued for almost 1.5 yrs and then braces was started. But even after splint therapy my jaw muscles were so tight and my bite was mismatched.... Now my dentist is correcting my bite by braces without giving any look towards my tight muscles.... Is it possible to correct my bite without giving a look towards my muscles? If I would have displaced disk even now then what type of symptoms I would experience or feel?
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Dr. Renju Jose
Dentist
21 yrs exp
Ernakulam
Definitely Your bite and TMJ related problems are interrelated...If you have Tight muscles and any joint problem...the first thing is to diagnose the problem right before going for any kind of treatment ..All the treatment without properly finding out the issue will not help at all..
Now we have detailed methods for diagnosing the problem of TMJ like detailed history,xray analysis,Digital bite scan,ELectomyography for the muscle.etc.etc.With all these will know wat exactly has to be done .
So all the other treatments just for timebeing,like injections,Tensing etc are just momentary relief.
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no active treatment with out understanding the proble.
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Dr. Nitika Darshan Anand
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10 yrs exp
Gurgaon
Bite is one of the major factor which can cause TMJ issues. 1st of all need to evaluate is there any history of muscle hypertrophy? I. E excessive and over use of muscles like in tobacco, supari chewing.. Or even clinching habits if any of those habits present we can get rid of that with night guard and occusal splints. Splint therapy always need to monitor from person to person we give thinner splint and simultaneously increase the thickness as per the adaptive behaviour of TMJ muscles.
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you can get analyse which all muscles are hyperactive and then can relax those muscles you can opt botox injection and low laser therapy along with bite correction through braces
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TMJ exercises should help hot and cold compression and tens therapy you can consider a long with muscle relaxant tablet
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