People who
go through temporomandibular joint disorder or the TMJ
syndrome usually suffer from many symptoms that include
difficulty in opening and closing the mouth, i.e. the
jaws, clicking or popping sound during that operation,
headache, facial pain (myofascial pain
syndrome),
tinnitus (hearing weird sounds in the ears) as also
dizziness in more than a few cases. For many people, the
dizziness becomes quite acute, and in them, this
naturally becomes a serious issue that has to be
resolved fast.
TMJ – What
Are the Causes And Why The Dizziness
Happens?
Even
though there are several theories explaining the
underlying causes of this peculiar phenomenon, one thing
is sure, and this is that it originates in the middle
ear where the body’s balancing system comes from.
Nevertheless, in order to get the right TMJ cure, it may
be prudent to analyze some of the causes that create
dizziness which are given below.
Temporomandibular
joint disorder invariably results in inflammation in the
surrounding muscles, ligament and tendons which in turn
affects the neighboring middle year, which apart from
having the auditory nerve also has the vestibular nerve
that are responsible for maintaining balance in human
beings. When this nerve gets disturbed or become
pressurized, it creates imbalance or
dizziness.
Another
theory proclaims that the Sternocleidomastoid Muscle
(SCM) which is also responsible for maintaining balance
in human beings can go haywire due to the TMJ disorder,
thus producing dizziness and allied
problems.
However,
the most convincing theory puts the blame on a ligament
(that is also called Pinto’s Ligament). This ligament is
connected in one end with the TMJ, and at the other end
it is attached to a fine bone in the middle portion of
the ear, and this is what causes the ear-related
problems such as tinnitus, loss of hearing and dizziness
as has been propounded by Harold Arlan, MD., Assistant
Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology Surgery at the
College of Medicine & Dentistry of New
Jersey.
Since
dizziness evidently appears to culminate from a number
of issues that include temporomandibular bone decay,
misaligned bite and their combined effect on the inner
ear, the remedy should obviously come through some of
the following courses. However, once the bite is set
right, all other issues would disappear
forthwith.
- Coronoplasty
- Provisional
or Interim Treatment LVI
Orthotic
- Total
Dental Reconstruction
- Surgery
- TMJ
exercises
- Dietary
supplements containing anti-oxidant vitamins like A,
C, E, Zinc and
- Selenium
Coronoplasty,
incidentally, is a minor process in which the dentist
after checking the bite problem grinds off any high spot
that appears to interfere with the bite. This permits
the teeth to come into appropriate occlusion and the
bite becomes perfect.
Provisional
or Interim Treatment LVI Orthotic is also a simple
process in which the dentist determines the position of
the neuromuscular occlusion and then sets an orthotic
which is custom fitted on to the teeth. Owever, this is
an interim measure to see that the diagnosed new bite
pattern is correct or not. Once this proves
satisfactory, steps are taken to align the jaws on a
permanent basis.
For total
dental reconstruction (sometimes called Full-mouth
reconstruction), the teeth are ground down almost to
their base and ‘Caps’ or ‘Crowns’ are fitted on to what
is left of the natural teeth in order to ensure that the
bite is perfect. It may be relevant to note here that
neuromuscular dentists seldom consider the habitual bite
as model since the basic problem could have been caused
due to a defective habitual bite and reconstructing the
‘new’ bite could prove hazardous to the patient.
TMJ
surgery involves opening out the joint and replacing the
displaced disc. Sometimes decayed bone sections are
‘repaired’ to conform to a perfect bite. However, TMJ
surgery is applied only as a last resort since patients
usually complain of nagging pain in the region long
after the wounds have healed. And it also needs to be
remembered that you must never seek TMJ relief through
surgery without first consulting your
physician.
TMJ
exercises, on the other hand, prove successful in
relieving the symptoms of the TMJ disorder to a great
extent. In fact, these drills have been planned in such
a way that the muscles linked to the joint are fully
toned up, thus making it easy for the jaws to function
smoothly as also ensuring a satisfactory bite. Apart
from this, dietary supplements are also recommended to
rejuvenate the joint that have others\wise
become.
Permanent
Remedy For TMJ Dizziness
Did you
know that most TMJ treatment options fail to provide a
permanent remedy from the problems of the disease,
including the dizziness? Actually what happens is that,
most TMJ cures just treats the symptoms and not the real
causes that can happen from many factors. On the
contrary, what is needed to find the causes first so
that they can all be treated. And naturally, once the
causes are all gone, the symptoms have no business to
stick around. They go away quickly too. Holistic
remedies do just this. Treating the body as a whole,
they treat the real causes and not the symptoms, and
this is why holistic remedies can offer permanent TMJ
cure.
