The three letter joint causing BIG problems

Ajouté : 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]TMJ 101 >> [laughter] >> This is your mandible. This guy can cause a lot of problems. It simply attaches to the rest of your body by this magical three-letter word, TMJ.

[00:00:13]That's the temple, that's the mandible, and that's the joint. We use this joint for a number of things. Of course, we chew, we open, we close, we yawn. So, what happens when we do that? Well, there is this joint that gets compressed if that jaw is not in the right place.

[00:00:30]So, many of us have a misaligned jaw.

[00:00:32]That means they have a beautiful set of teeth, but they have all kinds of symptoms. What could happen from a misaligned jaw? Well, we could have headaches because these muscles right next to our temples, when we bite down, they are attached to the jaw and they are used to close the jaw. So, they get activated. Then, we have these muscles called the masseter muscles that we use to chew with. A lot of patients have tensions right on their face along here.

[00:00:55]In fact, one side of the face is more swollen than the other side because one masseter muscle is acting up more than the other. Think about going to the gym.

[00:01:03]You just work one bicep and don't work the other one. So, the other one's going to grow and this one is not. This muscle is under a state of constant tension. By aligning the jaw with the proper appliances, which we use by the use of electromyography, that means we'll hook you up to a computer where we would actually determine where these muscles are and then we are able to give you what I call a happy bite, getting rid of all these symptoms.