What Is TMD and Why Can't More Patients Find Effective Treatment?
Also called TMJ or TMJD, jaw pain and dysfunction can manifest in unusual ways.
By Anna Medaris Miller, Staff Writer |April 5, 2018, at 4:41 p.m.
For most of her life, Lynn Tomfohrde didn't worry much about her mouth. Besides undergoing the usual orthodontia work as a kid and developing a couple of cavities in her 20s, her dental history was clean.
But lately, all Tomfohrde, 56, can do is worry about her mouth. Her bite is off, her teeth are collapsing inward, her face droops and her jaw and teeth constantly ache. She's gripped by anxiety when asked out to eat, tires quickly when talking and rarely sleeps more than four hours a night due to the pain. Even the rest of her body has weakened since weightlifting – her passion – aggravates symptoms and can be dangerous on such low energy.
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