Read This Article! - TMJ Disorder -TemporoMandibular Joint Message Board

KMX · 04-25-2003, 02:23 PM

Go to [url="http://www.tmjfacialpain.com/pub5.htm"]http://www.tmjfacialpain.com/pub5.htm[/url] and read the article entitled Yesterday's Dentistry - Today's Chronic Pain. Many of you may find it very helpful.
Kelly

HRevero · 04-26-2003, 10:28 AM

I totally related to this article. I could see the pattern that I have been going through ( not even realizing it). I knew that I was a chronic pain sufferer but I guess I did not know the emotional part of it. Since no one was able to diagnose me with anything wrong with me, I went along with my daily life. I have always been in alot of pain, but what could I have done. No one believed me. I had all these symptoms but nothing was wrong with me, they would tell me. This has taken a lot of my energy. I had to rearrange my whole life to figure out how I was going to live with all this pain, pretty much alone. My husband has been here, but he really can't comprehend how much pain I have been in, because he is not in pain. He tries but he can't really. He has been my main support through my day to day life. I can see how destructive this disorder can be when left alone. In a way I did go into denial for the world, never for myself. I knew I was in pain, but was I going to burden people with my problems that had no name...no. Everyday life is so hard to do and enjoy, a lot of people just don't get it.
This article was cool because it showed my pattern pshycological. For the doctor to come up with this through his own personal experience was also very interesting. One of them finally understands what we go through everyday, and he is telling the world... lets jsut hope they believe him.
Heather

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KMX · 04-26-2003, 12:13 PM

You don't have to worry about others believing him, this information has been commonly know in the dental community for many years. The problem lies in the dental community not wanting to tell the general public the truth. I've spoken to Dr. Miller, the doctor that wrote this article and he was shockingly not supportive of helping my son and I. He told me that no dental professional would ever acknowledge the truth and that we would never get treatment because they would stick together and never acknowledge the truth about what was done to us. I begged him to help my son since I had yet to find anyone to treat us at this point but he refused telling me my son and I would never get help and never get treatment and to learn to live with it.
The problem is not in informing dental professionals but rather informing the public. This information has been out there in the dental community for more than 30 years but to protect themselves from lawsuits and so they continue to make money off our suffering, they have chosen to keep it a secret and to not inform the general public of the truth. Also some dental professionals are arrogant and egotistical and since they spoke out against the ones who first discovered the truth, primarily Dr. John Witzig, they have continued to practice in a way that is harmful to patients in the name of pride and arrogance but not of ignorance. Only when the truth comes out will innocent patients be safe from the abuse my sons and I suffered and only then will TMJ suffers get the appropriate help they need to recover.
Kelly