Acupuncture completely cured my trigeminal neuralgia. No more Topomax; no more pain. I did have to go several times--maybe 6, I forget--it's been a few years ago now. If it comes back after a few years, would I go back for another half dozen acupuncture treatments at $60.00 each? Sure. The point is, I've been TMJ-pain-free because of acupuncture for several years now!

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I have nothing against acupuncture as temporary pain relief, but it will NOT realign your teeth. I sure didn't enjoy the braces I had put on in my 40s, but they did permanently stop the molar grinding and headaches. It could be that upper and lower teeth that don't fit together properly could be the "root cause" of your stress, rather than the other way around. "balancing the energy around the jaw" - this is quack-speak. "six to eight visits before assessing if acupuncture will or will not be effective" - at how much $$ per visit? What is the risk that 6-8 sessions would damage your nerves? Care2, please stop allowing hucksters to prey upon the gullible!

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After going through YEARS and YEARS of mouth guards and mouth excersises. Plus chiropractors and acupunture. Then I found this product that is made by the dentist. I went to the man who patented them yet he teaches other how to make them. It is the only thing that ever really worked. It lasts forever. It is called The mouth guard, which is short for Nociceptive Trigeminal Inhibition Tension Suppression System, or NTI-tss, fits over a person's two front teeth. If anyone has problems I would say to use this!! xo

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A rather inexpensive treatment for TMJ pain from stress and bruxing is to see your Dentist and have an occlusal splint made aka night guard. These appliances work by keeping the jaw open slightly and prevents wearing down tooth structure.

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It happened again: I wrote a comment -> the character count said I still had a few characters remaining -> I post the comment -> the last few words get cut off.

Well, the end of my comment was "Just ran out of space. Those were some e.g.s".

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I wish articles like this acknowledged other ways. I know it's tempting to say (the speaker feels powerful, the reader wants to hear confidence) "this is it". E.g. this article's intro could have said "some experts" instead of "experts", and "here's some approaches". It's akin to what we accuse mainstream medicine of -- not letting us know there are other effective approaches and other experts.

Here, from my & colleagues' experiences, other approaches for TMJ:

The wide array of approaches that Applied Kinesiology has accumulated, e.g. basics those board-certified in that (DICAK after their name) should be expert in.

Janda-style PNMF (propioreceptive neuromuscular facilitation; muscle re-education) for resetting the tonicities of TMJ muscles. In the short run there are various stretches some can do (e.g. the series nicknamed "clock face", e.g. "blowing up balloons").

Various styles of trigger point therapy, e.g.: Nimmo (and Travell and Prudden derivatives of Nimmo) and Jones. I prefer dual channel frequency specific microcurrent because it doesn't cause pain during the treatment and in some ways is more effective.

The Chicago Holistic Dental Society had a paper in the 70s about Alexander Technique straightening out scolioses and some TMJ stuff was thus also corrected, and vice versa (work on TMJ stuff straightening out scolioses).

Nutritional/metabolic reasons underlying muscle hypertonicities and TMJ degeneration.

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Nedall B. sure writes pretty!

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thanks for this, timely to the max for me. i've had TMJ off and on since my teens and yes, nothing like the news of the day to get me clenching my jaw. but recently, have had a first long spell of it. previously it had only been a few hours, but this time, days at a time. now that you mention it, it figures that accupuncture would work. wife does good massages but has been temporary help for the aches. will try the inner-mouth stuff.

now if only i could afford to see an accupuncturist...

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Intra-oral massage worked for me. Some chiropractors also know how to do this. Mine then taught me the technique so I can self-treat whenever I have a flare up.

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