WHAT IS TMJ

The letters TMJ are short for 'temporo-mandibular joint', which is the joint connecting your lower jaw and your skull. The movement in this joint lets you open and close your mouth and chew from side to side.

Clicking, grinding or pain in your jaw joints, ringing or buzzing in your ears and difficulty in opening or closing your mouth could all be due to your teeth not meeting each other properly.

This group of disorders of the jaw joint and its associated muscles are more correctly called TMD which is the term your dentist or physician may use.

There are two types of TMD :

1. Disorders of the joint itself (arthrogenous TMD). 2. Disorders of the muscles that move the jaw (myogenous TMD).