Not Just a Jaw Click: The Consequences of Untreated TMJ
You wake up and your face hurts, your jaw locks and then there’s the clicking! The clicking is seriously distracting when you eat! Does this sound familiar?
You wake up and your face hurts, your jaw locks and then there’s the clicking! The clicking is seriously distracting when you eat! Does this sound familiar?
Do you find you’re reaching for the bottle of painkillers each morning while you make your coffee? Maybe you don’t even think before you take them because it’s been going on for so long — the intense head pain you feel as you wake, like someone set a vice around your head as you slept.…
TMJ, neck, shoulder and ear pain as well as headaches should be resolved first prior to clear aligners. Here’s why…
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Everyone has experienced a headache or neck ache at some point in their life. The pain can be overwhelming and render you temporarily helpless. While some causes of head and neck aches are well known, such as caffeine withdrawal, colds, sinus infections, and cases of flu
Reading and responding to text messages while asleep — called “sleep texting” — is an abnormal sleep behavior