subject: An Intricate Procedure Now Available for TMJ Sufferers [print this page] This lady cannot yawn for a certain period of time when she wakes up in the morning. All involuntary actions concerning her mouth such as speaking and eating are going to have to be minimized for she is still recovering from a corrective surgery.
Now, this pretty blonde is pestered by her popping jaws for she has been experiencing this for two years already. There have been times when she's sitting in a restaurant, and she's chewing away and she feels like everyone around her can hear the popping. Aside from chewing, her jaws popping only happens if she opens her mouth wide but when she simply talks, there is no popping sound.
She is problematic about the cushion displacement of the ball socket joint of the jaw which is the TMJ. In a normal jaw, what protects the two bones from rubbing is the cushion or the pad which rides on top of the ball part of the joint. In a popping jaw, just like a Frisbee, the pad is thin in the middle and has thick edges which have been displaced as a result of a ligament that has been stretched.
The pad can be displaced if a person is being elbowed in the jaw, has experienced trauma or a mother holding a baby suddenly rears its head up. The problem on hand is mostly neglected or not attended to. If the ligaments that pull the pad back are extremely stretched and the muscle goes into spasm, a muscle tension headache then causes displacement.
The intricate procedure to correct the problem which has only been in existence for only a few years requires shortening the elastic ligament attached to the posterior of the pad, and then repositioning the existing pad if it has not been damaged. The length of the ligament removed depends upon how far forward the pad is. In some instances, it cannot be avoided that the pad is entirely destroyed which now requires a prosthetic pad.
TMJ affects a number of 15 to 18 years of age. According to them, problems mostly start with ear pain because the joint is so close to the ear canal. Some people with TMJ will be suffering with this problem for the rest of their lives. Arthritis will be able to develop in a span of three to four years if inflammation of the joint continuous. The pain was so intense that it was as if something in her ear was being ripped out.
She could never sleep which is why she took big amounts of pain medication even though it kept her tired. Her hopes were on the downiest level for no doctor was able to help her. The depression was the worst part, because she thought she'd never be able to win over the pain which can sometimes cause suicidal tendencies. Some give up on themselves because of the terrible pains that they are faced with.
Other nerves on the right side of her head and down to her arm caused nerve irritation as well as the muscle contractions that hindered the supply of blood to her arm. The entire right side of hers sometimes feels like it were a charley horse or muscle cramp. Within a span of three months, rehabilitation takes place. Opening the mouth more than one centimeter is not acceptable for patients after the first two weeks of surgery. The normal mouth opening is 40 millimeters which the patients are now beginning the process of exercising their jaws.
An Intricate Procedure Now Available for TMJ Sufferers
