TMJ/ TMD Journal
Friday, July 21, 2006
Your teeth, midline and TMJFor those of you who have had dental work that screwed up your lives...Here's an interesting article on how the alignment of your teeth can affect your whole body...
http://www.aacfp.org/unique_joint.html
From the article at the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain..."The teeth are passive members of the upper and lower jaw, but they have a specific way they must fit together and interrelate. As far as the brain is concerned tooth position has priority over joint position...this means the TM joint is forced by the muscles to move so that the teeth fit together properly...this can potentially cause a misalignment in the joint capsule"...
A little further down in the article..." often the internal derangement of the TM joint is preceeded by myofascial pain dysfunction and can involve moderate severe spasms of the head, neck, shoulder and or back muscles. A wide range of symptoms mayb occur such as headaches, muscle aches, ear pain, dizziness, stuffiness and ringing in the ears, blurred vision etc..." Heck! I had all this stuff and more!!!
Link submitted by Anna. Thanks Anna!
jan
