What is Neuromuscular Dentistry?

Chino Periodontics A neuromuscular dentist, as Dr Setiady, can realign your bite and resolve your TMJ / TMD symptoms.To put it simply, neuromuscular dentistry places the jaw into its optimal position, relieving the symptoms that are associated with TMJ. While traditional dentistry evaluates and treats primarily the teeth, bones, and gums, neuromuscular dentistry works with the hard tissues and the soft tissues, nerves and muscles. Neuromuscular dentists understand that your hard and soft tissues have a complex relationship and work to make that relationship a harmonious one. Neuromuscular dentists understand the necessity for including the power source and the controls which create the movement, pressures, and function of the mouth.

When the jaw is misaligned, both the hard and soft tissues are affected and many physiological problems can result, such as jaw pain, headaches, ringing in the ears, tinnitus, or neck and shoulder pain, and popping or clicking sounds in the jaw joint. In a number of cases, these symptoms are the result of TMJ (temporomandibular joint syndrome), also referred to as TMD (temporomandibular joint disorder) or MPD (myofascial pain dysfunction).

TMJ / TMD is a chronic degenerative disease that often takes years to develop. TMJ affects millions of people. People who suffer from TMJ have an imbalance in the jaw-to-skull relationship, which is caused by a bad bite (malocclusion).

Treatment

Neuromuscular Dentistry serves to correct the bite and realign the jaw.

Dr Setiady will first determine the optimal position of the jaw by measuring the relaxed position of the head and neck muscles. Then he will reposition the jaw to achieve those exact measurements.

Malocclusion is relatively easy to correct. Treatment options include adjusting the bite, orthotics, orthodontics, or restoring the teeth to their correct positions.

Benefits

Patients of neuromuscular dentistry experience a range of benefits from decreased or eliminated pain and discomfort to better overall health and longer-lasting dental restorations.

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Dr. Lucas Setiady DDS - Providing services in cosmetic, sedation and neuromuscular dentistry, tmj treatment, periodontics and root canals to the area of Chino Hills, Southern California.