TMJ SUPPORT

TMJ Doctor

feeds@yuku.com (bite718) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:13:24 PST

Hi Everyone

Hope All Is Well

I need a new night guard.

My last Doctor moved out of my area.

Can someone recommend a TMJ Doctor In The New York City Area.

Thank You Very Much

Please Reply ASAP.

Indian Ear Candle

feeds@yuku.com (sweetahs) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:11:07 PST

INDIAN EAR CANDLE

WHAT IS EAR CANDLING?

Ear candling is a centuries old method of bringing an enhanced state of health to the ear, nose, throat and sinus area.

If anyone has any questions, I am free to answer them, just contact me. Thank you all for being supportive of me and each other both past and present.

Ginni

Hi, I'm new here

feeds@yuku.com (tam bam) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:43:01 PST

Hello All:

I am tam bam and I would like to introduce myself. I am a post surgical tmjd sufferer. I have severe arthritis on both sides. I had 2 surgeries about 3 years ago and the last surgery failed on my last year. My first surgery was arthrocetisis surgery and when that didn't help the surgeon had to cut me open and go in. I had an MRI before both surgeries but it didn't show the full scope of the problem especially on my right side which is the worst side. The MRI did show a bone spur on my left side with disc displacement but nothing on the right side except for a displaced disc and my pain then was mostly on my right side. The surgeon and I both thought something was very wrong on the right side so we decided to go ahead with arthroplasty surgery. When the surgeon opened me up on my left side all he could find was the bone spur we had knowledge of and he got rid of it and sewed me back up but when he opened...

Topamax Warning

feeds@yuku.com (Elaine2004) — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:54:37 PST

We are bringing this FDA warning to you because TMJ patients are primarily women in their child bearing stage of life and we have heard from a number of people that have TOPOMAX as a drug in their treatment regimen. We wanted you to be aware of this label change.

Topamax (topiramate): Label Change - Risk For Development of Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Palate in Newbor

Am going with checking before cutting

feeds@yuku.com (Growlsburg) — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:07:03 PST

Well had some adventure Monday seeing my Surgeon and taking another look at the left joint. We are trying to seeing if we can use some prednisone with the hope if things so badly off with my occlusion in such a short amount of time. We are not even sure if it is the left or right joint that is causing every thing to change two mm moth left occlusion. It is my left jaw joint that is hurting so much. But as many of know there is something called referred pain and that can very well what had happening here. One of the best things about my appointment was getting to see my Step-Father in whom I had not seen in three years. We live about a hundred miles apart and he is so busy with his life. Just was sad that I was feeling so bad with pain that just did not feel all that chatty. My Dr. Had even given me an IM injection of 150 of Demerol with no effect at all. Had so much pain that I was sick to my stomach for the drive back and forth to my home. Well hope everyone had...

New to your group

feeds@yuku.com (Growlsburg) — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:18:54 PST

Hi my name is Cindy,and I am excited about finding a support group for TMJ. A little about myself and my TMJ surgical past. One of the reasons I had looked up a support group after dealing over thirty years and around sixty surgeries. Is well, Monday I,m once again heading to my surgeons office as we are looking to see if it will be time to do my fifth total TMJ replacement on the left joint. One would be shocked to learn that all of this mess is due to a guy wanting to get into one of his residents pants. Yup, that,s what I,m saying with a mixture of deppressision and anger. It was the chief of oral surgery wanting to impress one of his residents in the prothidontic department at the VA in San Francisco. Way back in December 1981 after I had been in the Air Force and had been hit in the mouth breaking a couple of teeth, and jaw joints but had not had any work done except one tooth extracted while still in the service. I was only 21 at the time I had my first appointment...

A MESSAGE OF HOPE

feeds@yuku.com (Marla Albright) — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:49:10 PST

A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO MY FELLOW TMJ SUFFERERS

For thirty years I have suffered with TMJ, seeking help from doctors, dentists, therapists, chiropractors and trying many treatments which supposedly would lead to a cure. In recent years, I have finally found some help. It is my hope that if I share this with you, my experiences both unfruitful and helpful, you can avoid some of the pitfalls and benefit from the successes. It would be something positive that I can do despite all the negative pain that I have suffered. So here goes:

MY INITIAL SYMPTOMS
• Pain in TMJ joint, difficulty in biting down and eating.
• Pain in the back of my neck that walked down my back
• Headaches

LATER SYMPTOMS THAT APPEARED OVER THE YEARS
• Numbness in arms.
• Difficulty in breathing.
• Chest Pain
• Spots and blurred vision, vertigo.
• Lack of...

Pained & Confused...

feeds@yuku.com (MOhara0310) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:21:30 PST

Dear Readers,

I'm brand new to this site and this is my very FIRST posting. I'm glad I came across
this forum and I'm hopeful that someone can help me solve my problem. I am 24 years old,
right at the threshold of every dentist wanting to remove my wisdom teeth.

I have been struggling with an issue for about a year now. It...

FDA News Release

feeds@yuku.com (Elaine2004) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:37:33 PST

FDA NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: Feb. 7, 2011
Media Inquiries: Erica Jefferson, 301-796-4988, erica.jefferson@fda.hhs.gov
Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA

FDA orders postmarket surveillance of certain TMJ implants
Agency wants data on length of time before removal, replacement

Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered three manufacturers of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) implants to conduct postmarket surveillance studies to determine the length of time before the implants are removed or replaced due to pain or other reasons.

The TMJ connects the lower jaw (mandible) to the temporal bone in the skull. A person may have an implant to replace the socket in the temporal bone or the rounded edge of the lower jaw that glides in the temporal bone socket because of an injury,...

curious about feedback on odd situation?

feeds@yuku.com (ginnic) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:01:57 PST

As many of you know from other postings, my TJR bilaterally, a year ago, was a great success, and it was the answer to my problems - though it took me 9 years to find the answers - and much of that search for the right answer was done by me, sort of plugging away, desperately, convinced I had a serious joint problem (I did) and trying to find the right doctor.

Here is my desire for feedback - along the way, when the first oral surgeon, after 2 scopes, decided - it seemed - that he had no more to offer me and seemed to be VERY doubtful that I had anything truly joint related going on (despite my symptoms, long story, look in archives?) and he actually warned me AGAINST having more surgery "it will not help and it will probably make things worse" etc - he referred me to a so called TMJ specialty and oral facial pain clinic - the doctor in that clinic he referred me to was NOT the one I ended up seeing - that person was booked up so far ahead - the other partner had a...

Muscle spasm and TMJ

feeds@yuku.com (luckeechick) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:03:51 PST

Continuing this from the Welcome section above! What is the biggest problem you all have with TMJ? I know they are all horrible. The worst and most upsetting for me is the muscle spasms which affect the back of my head at the base of my skull, my face and lots of time my neck. It is more of a spasticity really and the main thing that I have to treated to function. It's like a vibration in my head all the time and makes me dizzy, off-balance to the point I can't read, write, drive, etc., almost can't function at all with it really. If I keep this under control then the hurting sort of pain tends to stay more under control. Does anyone else have this to this degree?

I've never met anyone that has bad TMJ and would love to chat live sometimes.

Terri

Hello, one year anniversary feedback TJR

feeds@yuku.com (ginnic) — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:25:15 PST

Hello all,
Some of the older members remember me. I am a patient who struggled for approx 9 years to get help for my jaw problems - went through one oral surgeon locally (two scopes), one supposed referred to specialist (a disaster IMHO, expensive, worthless and emotionally traumatic in the long run when she didn't seem to believe me when I said her methods were making me WORSE), and, finally, with the help of my own internet research and talking to a willing TMJ surgeon in NYC area, he referred me to someone in my "own back yard" (hour and a half drive away). That OS quickly summed up the Xrays, MRI's, history of my jaw problems, with progression of same, more XRays, and in the LONG run - after trying several slightly less invasive methods - said I needed TJRs.

One year ago this week, June 23, 2009, to be precise, I had both joints removed and replaced with CONCEPTS joints in a long but uncomplicated surgery.

A year later? I take an occ aspirin if my muscles get...

Scientist Grows Jaw Bone From Adult Stem Cells

feeds@yuku.com (Cymy Sue) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:26:02 PST

Scientist Grows Jaw Bone From Adult Stem Cells
5-18-2010
by Anna Kuchment

A Columbia scientist has become the first to grow a complex, full-size bone from human adult stem cells.

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, reports that her team grew a temporomandibular joint (TMJ) from stem cells derived from bone marrow. Her work is reported in the online Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science this month.

Vunjak-Novakovic used CT images (A and B) to build a TMJ-shaped scaffold (C).
“The TMJ has been widely studied as a tissue-engineering model because it cannot be generated easily, if at all, by current methods,” says Vunjak-Novakovic, whose co-authors include Warren L. Grayson, then a post-doctoral student in her lab and now an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. Around 25 percent...

End to Rescission(Sept.) , and More Good News

feeds@yuku.com (Cymy Sue) — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:08:15 PST

NYTimes

May 2, 2010

Americans are already starting to see the benefits of health care reform. The new law requires health insurance companies — starting in September — to end their most indefensible practice: rescinding coverage after a policyholder gets sick. In recent days insurers and their trade association have rushed to announce that they will end rescissions immediately.

That is very good news for the thousands of people who each year pay their premiums but lose their coverage just when they are likely to run up big medical bills.

The insurers decided to act quickly after they were whacked by some very bad publicity. An investigative report by Reuters said that one of the nation’s biggest insurers, WellPoint, was targeting women with breast cancer for fraud investigations that could lead to rescissions.

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Expert Reports Written By TMJ Experts

feeds@yuku.com (Scout) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:32:17 PST

http://therichardtriggcase.webs.com/evidence1.htm
To read many expert reports written by world-renowned TMJ experts click on link above...

Have you ever sneezed and made your jaw ache??

feeds@yuku.com (lu jones) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:19:38 PST

Daytime Stress may lead to grinding teeth at night

feeds@yuku.com (Michelle Denise) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:00:50 PST

Grinding Teeth at Night May Be a Sign of Daytime Stress

Those who do it appear to have difficulty coping in a positive way, researchers say

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What does " articular erosions mean ?

feeds@yuku.com (tingu) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:59:32 PST

Hello everyone .

I'm trying to find out what that above term means in layman terms i.e. I'm assuming it means something to do with the connective tissue effecting the motion of the jaw , or is it something else ?

thanks

Tingu

Full mouth reconstruction

feeds@yuku.com (bite718) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:26:58 PST

Hi everyone

Right now I'm having pain and I want to put my teeth back to the way they used to be, I was told that full reconstruction could be able to fix the in correction in my bite, but I don't know of any dentists anymore to even get a recommendation.

How does a person find someone to do reconstruction on your mouth, someone that you can believe in that will do the work successfully. I live in NYC, if anyone has any suggestions on how to find the right person feel free to post.