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Temporomandibular Dysfunction
General description
What is temporomandibular dysfunction?
It's when some of the structures of the jaw works poorly or injured.
How temporomandibular dysfunction occurs?
It is caused by bad habits with the mouth as clenching or grinding the teeth or by biting unusually either crooked teeth or asymmetric jaws which are capable of initiating temporomandibular dysfunction is known as micro-trauma. It can generate more direct injuries to the face or jaw, which produce uncoordinating mandibular function.
The main symptoms are wastage of the teeth and / or molars at an accelerating rate in chewing noises, clicks, opening and closing the mouth and sometimes inexplicable pains in the ears, head, neck, back or shoulders and sometimes even vertigo.
What can I do to correct this problem?
If you have one or more of these symptoms you should go immediately to your dentist who will consider and give appropriate treatment or else send you to the appropriate specialist as may be necessary balance in the bite, tooth alignment, some dental prostheses , or may be required for any correction of facial asymmetry or some internal repair of the temporomandibular joint affected.
The Maxillofacial surgeon is the appropriate specialist.