Jaw Pain and TMJ in Odessa, FL
Eating a meal without planning around your jaw, and sleeping without waking anybody up.
Jaw pain, clicking, and clenching that usually arrives with neck tension and headaches attached.
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Sound familiar
“my jaw clicks, aches, and wakes me up”
8 quick questions about your own week, one at a time, and you get a score out of 100 and one next step. It takes about a minute. Nothing is collected and nothing is sent anywhere.
The part nobody explained
The jaw and the upper neck share load and share muscle, so a jaw that keeps flaring often has a neck pattern underneath it that nobody has looked at.
A night guard is a barrier between your teeth, which is worth having and is not treatment for whatever is driving the clenching.
Clenching through the night keeps the tissue loaded for eight hours at a stretch, which is why it does not settle on its own.
We look before we touch
Exam of the jaw alongside digital X-ray of the cervical spine, because the two are usually one problem. You are shown the images and told whether the neck accounts for what the jaw is doing.
The first visit is the exam and the digital X-ray. Nothing is adjusted on it, because adjusting before looking is guessing. What the care itself costs is given to you in writing at the report of findings, before you decide.
What we would use on it
Which of these applies to your case comes out of the exam rather than off this page.
Two phases, and you are told which one you are in
Whatever is driving your jaw pain and tmj, the shape of care here is the same and you are told which phase you are in the whole way through.
- Phase one
Correct what is driving it
Scoped before it starts. You are told how many visits it is built around, what is being measured, and when the re-exam happens, and you get that in writing with the price at the report of findings.
- The exam and the digital X-ray come first, so the plan answers to findings.
- A scheduled re-exam measures it rather than asking how your week went.
- When this phase is finished, you are told that it is finished.
- Phase two
Preserve what has been corrected
A body keeps loading, so a correction is something you keep rather than something you finish. What maintaining it looks like is explained with the reasons on the table, and it is a decision you make knowing what it is for.
- Discussed once the corrective phase is measured, not assumed at the start.
- You know what you are paying for and why, at every point.
- Nobody here will tell you a result holds forever on its own.
What patients said afterwards
The entire staff is so kind, welcoming, and truly cares about their patients.
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Questions people ask about jaw pain and tmj
Should I be seeing a dentist for this instead?
Possibly as well. Dental causes are real and we do not treat teeth. If the exam points at the bite rather than the structure, you get sent to a dentist and told why. Plenty of people need both.
What does treating the jaw actually involve?
Soft tissue work on the muscles that move the jaw, laser on the joint itself where indicated, and addressing the upper neck. All of it is explained and priced at the report of findings before anything starts.
My headaches might be connected. Is that a separate plan?
Usually the same one. Jaw tension, neck tension, and headaches that start at the base of the skull tend to share a cause, which is why they get looked at together rather than billed separately.