If you suffer from any of the following symptoms, you may be a candidate for neuromuscular dentistry:
- Pain behind the eyes
- Jaw clicking
- Numbness of arms and finger tips
- Repeated migraines or headaches
- Postural problems
- Ear aches
- Ear congestion
- Dizziness
- Toothaches
- Non-specific facial pain
- Breaking of crowns and teeth
- Grinding and clenching of teeth
What Is Neuromuscular Dentistry?
This is an advanced type of dental treatment that is used to correct a misalignment of the jaw at your temporomandibular point (TMD). The TMD is usually the known cause of a wide range of issues involving back pains, neck pains, jaw pains, face pains, and a range of irregularities and discomforts.
Correcting the TMB with realignment of your jaw, teeth, and jaw muscles to a harmonious position is achieved with a dental procedure and can help to amend the symptoms of TMD. What’s more, an adjusted alignment of your jaw can improve sports performance, and even dental health that is linked directly to heart disease.
Jaw Positioning
The position of the jaw is a complex subject. The function of your oral cavity is determined by your facial muscles, teeth, and how they all come together at rest and to function. Your bite tends to change over time as you grow and develop. Some dental procedures do require a new jaw position, but take note, there’s not necessarily an ideal position for an individual.
Treatment
Jaw realignment can be irreversible, and a dentist Gold Coast residents visit will take both prosthodontic and orthodontic measures into careful consideration. TMD may well lead to severe conditions such as neck and shoulder pain, poor posture, headaches, and it can affect your general well-being. In fact, realignment, it has been argued, is very rarely a medical necessity.
In many situations, jaw pain can actually be managed via non-invasive dental treatments. Imaging and tests can be performed to rile out any possible pathology, however, tests cannot determine if the position of your jaw is really the problem. Typically, inflammation is present if there is acute pain. If so, acute pain may be managed by your dentist and could include taking anti-inflammatories. What’s more, a splint might be used to stabilize the jaw, but, it is not advised to change bite alignment permanently.
Neuromuscular Dentistry Techniques
Such advanced dentistry that involved the realignment of your jaw requires a specialist dentist to make use of advanced techniques, including:
- Kinesiography
- Sonography
- Transcutaneous electrostimulation
- Electrognathography
- Electromyography
Each of the above are medical terms for procedures and techniques that have been designed to measure the precise position and movement of your jaw, and therefore help to determine what types of adjustment are needed to be made in order to create the perfect harmonious resting position.
