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Muscles in Dentistry

Dentistry is about more than just your teeth.  Lean more about the role muscles play in dentistry.

What is Nueromuscular Dentistry?

To understand Neuromuscular Dentistry (NMD), it helps to first know a few things about your occlusion or “bite”.  Your occlusion is the way that your upper and lower teeth fit together.  If your teeth do not fit together properly (misaligned bite), the muscles and joints accommodate - work to get them together.  A misaligned bite often leads to muscle that are overworked when they should be relaxed, leading to various painful conditions.

Neuromuscular Dentistry (NMD) is a term applied to techniques that expand upon the traditional approach to dentistry and considers the entire system that controls the positioning and function of the jaw.  The Neuromuscular dentist seeks to establish a jaw position based on a harmonious relationship of the three main factors affecting occlusion – the teeth, muscles and jaw joints.  The resulting jaw position is called the neuromuscular bite.

Many individuals do not realize that muscles play an important role in dentistry.  The science of Neuromuscular Dentistry (NMD) evaluates and treats your overall oral health by considering how your muscles, teeth and joints all work together.

How muscles affect your Occlusion?

Your jaw posturing muscles may be overworked in attempting to maintain your present “programmed” position, even when you think they are relaxed.  Head posture can also affect your occlusion and muscles that control head posture are primarily in the neck and upper back.  Taken together, these conditions can lead to a variety of problems including a less than ideal bite, muscle pain or dysfunction, or jaw joint problems.

The Neuromuscular Dentist determines the jaw position that is associated with relaxed posturing muscles and adjusts or alters your occlusion (bite) to that position.

Is Neuromuscular Dentistry for you?

There are often options to consider when you are choosing dental treatment. Afetr initially evaluating your situation, your dentist or treatment coordinator will discuss those options with you.  NMD becomes one of your options when or if you are contemplating aesthetic, cosmetic, reconstructive or orthodontic dental procedures.

Additionally, NMD techniques are used to treat patient that suffer from TMJ-LIKE symptoms and to aid in establishing the optimal occlusion becomes so important.

This is when choosing neuromuscular techniques may have a substantial and positive impact on the outcome of treatment.  The relaxed jaw position gives your dentist an added insight that may allow for a faster completion and improve final treatment results.

Fell Free to discuss these options further with your dental professional to determine if Neuromuscular Dentistry is right for you.