What steps do you take to protect your smile? Your daily oral hygiene habits help remove plaque that builds on the surface of your teeth. This forms your basis for protection against tooth decay, gum disease, and other common threats. But what can you do about the danger that occurs while you are asleep? If you wake up each morning with pain or stress in the joints of your jaw, you may experience a condition called TMJ disorder. Without treatment, TMD causes severe difficulty opening and closing your mouth properly while presenting pain throughout your day. This can stall your ability to go about your day as you constantly stop to deal with your mouth pain. By speaking with your dentist, we can examine your situation and provide a non-surgical treatment to grant relief. With the help of a custom, BPA-free, mouth guard, you can gently slide your jaw into a more comfortable position while you sleep. This helps take hours of stress off your joints to allow you to wake feeling refreshed.
At Sunny Smiles Family Dentistry, we look forward to helping you treat your TMJ condition. When you have better control over your ability to open and close your mouth, you can enjoy eating, speaking, and laughing once again. Because this problem is associated with the constant grinding of your bite, we can also create restorative treatments to repair your smile and build back its height.
Living Day To Day With TMD
If your teeth come out of position and misalign, your jaw can work overtime trying to complete your bite. After thousands of repetitive straining motions on its joint, the stress leads to temporomandibular joint disorder. While a variety of causes can lead to your uneven bite, a diagnosis from our dental team can help determine treatment. To bring your bite into proper alignment, we may place a dental crown to restore a chipped tooth or bond up lost height with composite resin.
Receiving A TMD Diagnosis
Call our office if you have constant pain that extends from the jaw area through your neck, shoulders, head, or back. This pain is associated with problems freely moving your jaw and should be inspected by a professional. If we determine you experience this problem, we can provide oral appliance therapy to get your jaw into a more comfortable spot. By taking a custom impression of your bite, your mouthguard will fit seamlessly over your teeth before you go to sleep each evening.
SPEAK WITH YOUR DENTIST AT SUNNY SMILES ABOUT TMJ DISORDER
Oral appliance therapy can help you get your jaw pain under control. To find out more about how our team treats your TMDn please contact our Sunny Smiles location on N Zaragoza Rd in El Paso, TX at (915) 849-9000.