shellis

I by no means am a expert on this, in fact i am trying to learn all of this myself, but i felt compelled to tell you my story.

I too was told that something was wrong of my bite and that if i got braces that it would most likely take my pain away. so i did it. a couple of weeks after the braces were put on the pain and the swelling was so bad that i had to have the wire taken off for a while. after the swelling went down and the pain somewhat subsided they put the wire back on. and with time and meds i got to a functioning point were i could eat some.

then they started the elastics, rubberbands, this is the part of the braces form what i understand is neccassary for the tmj treatment. I started this about 2 months ago. now my mouth and joint are so swollen that i am back to jsut licking pudding and yougurt off of spoons. no chewing at all very limited opening.

I am going to the ortho tomorrow and hopefully there is something that we can do to help with the pain.

I also want to tell you that when i started this it was this will probably help me
then it should,
then maybe
then 50/50
then it wa we'll see
then doubtfull
and now it is well at least i will get straight teeth out of it.

they really do no think that this is going to help my jaw at all.
so please please please think this through completely. get many opinions and just when you think that you have made yoru mind up go get one more opinion. this is a big desicion and i hope that yu make the right one form you.
and just because it did not work for me does not mean that it will not work for you, it might, it could, that is why i am saying go get many many opinions from drs and dentist that are specializing in tmj.


hope that this helped you and did not scare you that was not my intention.

sharon