Temporomandibular Joint Pain Treatment and Practices

Copyright: © 2013 Jeske NA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Disorders of the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) have become more prevalent in patients seeking care for joint, muscle, and associated headache pain. Currently, clinicians have limited treatment options to treat most cases of TMJ pain, given the diffuse nature of the reported symptoms. In some cases, radiographic diagnoses can identify structural displacement or damage to the articular disk in relation to the adjacent condyle. However, observing and recording pain behavior in the patient following multiple jaw movements and digital palpitations to the musculature of the maxillofacial region is primarily used to diagnose the majority of TMJ pain cases. Recent studies provide illumination to the physiological etiologies that may contribute to TMJ pain.