The answer to tmj
Hello there,
Briefly, I suffer like most of us here of tmj, mines ends up in migraines, I am eating sumatriptan like if they were m&m. I have been proposed some solution like to fix my posture, my feet, muscle because for some dentists, it's a all in one thing which I don't really believe.
Long story short, there's a specific dentist out there that might have the solution, it's Dr. Konstantin Ronkin. He has a method named after him.
For those interested by the long story (that I'll make briefly for not writing 30 pages) my pain started after a filling that broke and got replaced. Also, it's important to state that I'm clenching my teeth since I'm a kid and grinding my teeth in my sleep. So this filling that got replaced gave me very very bad pain occurred to my right side of the jaw, to my shoulder and to my head. I went back to fix it, zip it... It went worst. I seen an other dentist, he zipped some other teeth and it went even worst (all that in Russia) then I went in France, thinking dentists are better.... Wrong! He ziped a clean tooth and it get 10x worst.
But in my search of finding a dentist, one that does a t-scan , I finnaly found a specialist. He asked me 250e for the consultation but he understood that I wasn't from here and decided not to make me pay but he has explained me how he work. He looked at how my teeth are (my front teeth are covering way too much my bottom teeth) and he confirmed that I have an issue. He said he would need to do some recording of how my jaw move, how my bite process, a tscan and lot of other thing and by the end, I would have a splint (thing that goes on teeth). What this splint would do is to modify my teeth height, how they close together and everything but I would need to wear it all the time beside when I eat... Or instead of the splint to reshape all my teeth height/how it closes.A total of 2000 euro. I was sceptic and I preferred to invest in a gaming computer.... (dentist screw my teeth many times.. So you understand my sceptiness)
Fast foward, I discovered on tiktok (years latter) a dentist in Canada that was doing the same as the guy in France and decided to write him to know how much it cost bla bla bla. That I'm from Russia and it's a mess here. Shortly, he told me I was wrong and I have one of the best specialist in the world to fix this issue and it's this guy, Dr. Konstantin Ronkin.
He owns a clinic in the states, in Russia but I can't afford it. I did a tscan too and it showed that my right side is like 60% stronger( my bite is mainly on the right).
Those who are in search of a solution, you should maybe investigate in this path. Some dentists went to his seminar and got certifications '' from him '' but seminars (from my understanding) are like, I sit, I listen and I leave with a new attribute on paper. Are those good? It's maybe worth trying and if anyone tries one of those specialist and do this special splint and exams... I would love a feedback!
On my side, I sometimes able to manage the pain, to make it disappear for 3 months, 4 months before it comes back and destroys me for 1 month. Breathing exercise with the ribcage positionnement helped me a lot. Control the breathing to bring back my shoulder at level. Sports (specific back exercise at the gym) and y raise (which is very hard for me). Tongue on the palette, took me 1 2 years to learn to have my tongue there (over clinching) but I still do it wrong because I create a '' vaccum '' in my mouth and it creates pressure on my lips, my masseter and some muscles. I don't know if I still grind my teeth while sleeping, I'll ask my wife.
Hopefully some of those informations will help someone and one of you will try it and come back with good news 😂 else, good luck with this but I am sure it has to do with teeth height/bite close
Edit : the guy in canada that referred me to the Russian guy is Dr Curtis Westersund he has 4.9 on Google but it's easy to pay for reviews on Google so I don't trust it and for France it was Meyer Smile Clinic a dental office located in Marseille, France, at [314 Avenue du Prado, 13008 Marseille and I believe the name of the guy is Dr Jean Michel Meyer, he has 4.5 on Google which is more believable because French like to complain 😄😄