Our Take on TMD

The science of orthodontics has evolved over the past 30 years to broaden smiles similar to the famous "Julia Roberts smile", with a huge shift away from extractions and retractions to expansions and advancements. During this education, Dr. Dorothy Kassab took it upon herself to study TMD, the joint, case management, develop a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to treatment that has proven a success for her patients.

The bite acquisition for the treatment with appliances is now patented in the OneGuard Solutions TM kit product. Dr. Dorothy Kassab also leads a small group online TMD study club and periodic TMD Academy lectures where teaches other colleagues this successful modality. At the same time, Dr. Dorothy Kassab understood the void in our local area and being the visionary open up the first Central New York's TMD Pain Center dedicated to the diagnosis and comprehensive non-surgical treatment of TMJ pain & conditions.

The 2 most significant, yet misunderstood and unknown factors to other providers and patients are that TMD results in a displacement of the disc, dislocation of the mandible, or dysfunction of the joint, which in turn results in 2 things a weight shift of the entire head AND a corresponding agonist/antagonist muscle group response down the entire body. Over time, unbalanced muscle group function produces pain and injury. The second factor is that it produces an altered vertical measurement of the mandible to the skull causing a head forward posture and affecting physical structures such as the airway, tongue space, sinuses, compression of nerves and spasms of muscles.

The head weight shift AND the head-forward posture is the sequela of this debilitating condition that typically physicians or patients DO NOT associate with TMD but have profound signs and symptoms on patients that can be improved by treating the cervical head alignment. Neuromuscular oral appliance therapy has been studied over decades and has proven to be a reliable modality to improve patient's signs and symptoms in the TMD Headache Relief Solutions. this text to start editing. This image and text block is great for descriptions about your business, products, or services. Double-click the image on the right to change it. You can also stack more of these blocks to describe items with imagery.