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Your teeth do look beautiful. I hate the idea of teeth getting extracted. I didn't really even want my wisdom teeth to go, but they were in bad shape. Anyway, I think a expander might work in getting you the space you need without having any teeth extracted. But you will have to ask a trained orthod...

I went to my dentist just a few days ago and they gave me a referral to an orthodontist. He said that I have Class III anterior crowding, whatever that means. I told him that my bite feels off and my lower tooth is hitting the top front tooth. So, I did a search on orthodontists in the area near Bal...

Roxy,

Does your ortho charge for a consultation? I live about 10 minutes from one of the offices.

Thanks.

I haven't done electrical stimulation. It might work, it might be all stress related. I have so much stuff to do by October and then this month I am getting deployed to Iraq. The pains could also be from my lower back because I do run a lot only like 4 miles monday, wednesday, and friday. I have bee...

My muscles are very tight and sometimes I get pain in the lower neck. Some of my neck muscles are very tight. I have been gone to PT twice and all she does is asks me some questions and shows me a new exercise I should try. I live in the DC Baltimore area.

Thanks Isabella and Merytaten for the reply. I will see if my physical therapist would refer me to one. Today I had to get upper and lower impressions for a splint. Hopefully the splint will help. So far the nightguard and medications hasn't helped.

Isabel, I have those same problems. I have been twice to the physical therapist and she just gives me two exercises to do when I am at home. First is to twist your head to right a little past your shoulders and the same on the left. Friday she gave me a second exercise and she wanted me to touch my ...

Thanks Dr Jeff, I wish they had a treatment where I wouldn't need to go through the trial and error. But anyways I now know I am positive for TB, I just had the test Friday where I passed out after having the shot. I don't think things could get to much worse. I will ask the oral facial pain clinic ...

One last thing, I was searching http://www.gulakdds.com/ and I stumbled onto this.
http://www.gulakdds.com/Newsletters/spring06.pdf
On the last page it lists all of my symptoms and they call it craniomandibular dysfunction.

Here is how Joseph M. Gulak DDS describes it. From http://www.gulakdds.com/ Functional orthopedic orthodontics emphasizes how the muscles, jaw joints and teeth affect one another. A proper meshing of the teeth to function in harmony with the jaw joints and muscles will allow the teeth to wear and fu...

Has any of the doctors had experience with functional orthodontics or any ever went through the procedure? I would really like to know.

Thanks everyone

I am thinking it will be hard to find three orthodontists that practice functional orthodontics. Does anyone else have the same symptoms I do? Is this even a viable option or could these symptoms caused by something else not related to my bite? Does anyone know the price of functional orthodontics c...

Hello, I am thinking about doing functional orthodontics when I am finished with the military. Some of my problems are ear pressure, sore jaw muscles, sore neck muscles and some front teeth sensitivity. I have already been seen by an ENT for the ear pressure. All there tests showed up fine. I been t...

I looked at the PDQ. All I have is the Q. I am able to open my mouth fully and move my jaw left to right. Also I do have the a sore trampizius muscle. I think the lady at the oral facial pain clinic said I might need some type of injections. Personally I think it will help as a short term solution b...

I wonder if I tmj/d? I first notice symptoms when I turned 17 or 18 with ear pressure and slight ear pain. It wasn't to bad it would come and go. Not until I was 21 did I have a little more pain. I was more restless and muscles more tense. That same year I got my wisdom teeth taken out. I felt good ...