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petrel
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Hello Dentists,
I have had TMJ problems since my twenties, which I believe were due to my toingue muscles and mandible being trapped. Now that I can see a way to resolution, I have a problem that I do not understand what has been recommended to me, and I am suspicious and lost.
Let me explain. I am 39 years old now, and in my late teens I had ortho to correct an overjet, resulting in the TMj problems. These were not too bad, but recently also I had an implant placed in my no.8 tooth, and the anteriors adjacent were crowned. The result of the thicker anteriors is that my tongue is protesting it's lack of "operating" space. I can now tell this was my TMJ problem all along, in that my tongue and mandible had "retreated" away from the maxilla anteriors. My mandible had been trapped, and my tongue was flaccid or dormant, and I was not swallowing to relieve the stresses.
However the same specialist who has helped me see this (after many others who offered me appliances and restorations) is proposing a kind of appliance/orthpedics to move my maxilla forward slightly. This would then be followed by a reverse face-mask to bring the maxilliary molars forward, in order to catch up. I checked to make sure, and yes of course this is not orthodontics in the normal sense, due to the implant making that impossible. He says that his appliance will move the maxilla (or pre-maxilla - is there a surture to open - I know a maxilla can be widened this way - in fact mine is also too narrow, and he proposes to expand it with the same appliance).
The basic question is, can he actually move the maxilla forward with appliances ?
When I ask this, please understand that my tongue problem is 'occupying', I seem to have a tongue too long for the maxilla, which he disgnosed as severely underdeveloped.
I believe his diagnosis was excellent, compared to others who sold me on corwns, etc, and it has helped eliminate my TMJ - but at the expense of this terrible tongue problem.
Thank You so much for your assistance...if I can resolve this problem, even by surgery, I will have such a quality of life imrpovement, right now it is almost zero
regards....................Petrel
I have had TMJ problems since my twenties, which I believe were due to my toingue muscles and mandible being trapped. Now that I can see a way to resolution, I have a problem that I do not understand what has been recommended to me, and I am suspicious and lost.
Let me explain. I am 39 years old now, and in my late teens I had ortho to correct an overjet, resulting in the TMj problems. These were not too bad, but recently also I had an implant placed in my no.8 tooth, and the anteriors adjacent were crowned. The result of the thicker anteriors is that my tongue is protesting it's lack of "operating" space. I can now tell this was my TMJ problem all along, in that my tongue and mandible had "retreated" away from the maxilla anteriors. My mandible had been trapped, and my tongue was flaccid or dormant, and I was not swallowing to relieve the stresses.
However the same specialist who has helped me see this (after many others who offered me appliances and restorations) is proposing a kind of appliance/orthpedics to move my maxilla forward slightly. This would then be followed by a reverse face-mask to bring the maxilliary molars forward, in order to catch up. I checked to make sure, and yes of course this is not orthodontics in the normal sense, due to the implant making that impossible. He says that his appliance will move the maxilla (or pre-maxilla - is there a surture to open - I know a maxilla can be widened this way - in fact mine is also too narrow, and he proposes to expand it with the same appliance).
The basic question is, can he actually move the maxilla forward with appliances ?
When I ask this, please understand that my tongue problem is 'occupying', I seem to have a tongue too long for the maxilla, which he disgnosed as severely underdeveloped.
I believe his diagnosis was excellent, compared to others who sold me on corwns, etc, and it has helped eliminate my TMJ - but at the expense of this terrible tongue problem.
Thank You so much for your assistance...if I can resolve this problem, even by surgery, I will have such a quality of life imrpovement, right now it is almost zero
regards....................Petrel