Teo Korean Medicine Clinic Bundang — when reviewing care for temporomandibular disorder here, The temporomandibular joint can protrude like a disc, and it can also make sounds when torn.
You can start by checking the items below, such as whether there is a sound when you open your mouth or a stiff feeling in the jaw joint area.
If jaw pain starts from a particular tooth, or that tooth hurts when you chew, the cause may be the tooth itself rather than the jaw joint, so it needs to be checked at a dental clinic first.
Rarely, if after the age of 50 your jaw hurts when chewing and tires easily, and this appears together with headache or changes in vision, it may be temporal arteritis. In that case prompt care is needed to protect your sight.
You can check yourself with the items below, and if any of them apply, please have them confirmed at a visit.
My jaw makes a clicking sound when I open my mouth.
The temporomandibular joint area feels stiff and painful.
I have difficulty opening and closing my mouth.
The neck and shoulders feel stiff and painful.
Symptoms include TMJ headache, ringing in the ears, and pain around the eyes.
Symptoms such as facial asymmetry, facial numbness, and facial tension occur.
The self-check items for TMJ disorder overlap with other care topics. You can review them together on the page below.
The self-check items include stiffness and pain in the neck and shoulders. Neck and shoulder symptoms can be reviewed together on the forward head and straight neck page.
The self-assessment items include TMJ headache, tinnitus, and pain around the eyes. For more on headaches, you may refer to the headache and migraine page.
The self-check items include facial asymmetry, facial numbness, and facial tension. Facial asymmetry is covered together in its own care page.
We explain what jaw sounds mean, how care is chosen, and the signs to check first.
The sound your jaw makes when you open your mouth is one of the items we look at for TMJ disorder, but the sound alone cannot determine your condition or whether treatment is needed. We check it together with whether there is pain, whether opening and closing the mouth is difficult, and whether the jaw catches. If the sound grows louder or comes with pain or difficulty opening the mouth, do not judge it yourself; have it checked in consultation.
If the pain starts from a particular tooth, if that tooth hurts when you chew, or if a problem with tooth alignment or bite is suspected, it is better to have it checked at a dental clinic first. If jaw sounds or pain come with neck and shoulder tightness, headache, or facial tension, a Korean medicine clinic can review the temporomandibular joint and the upper cervical spine together. If it is hard to decide between the two, please be seen first for the symptom that is clearest.
A clicking sound in the jaw does not mean imaging is needed first in every case. If the shape of your jaw or the way your teeth meet has changed after a fall or a blow, or if you can barely open your mouth, care and examination to check for a fracture or another cause may come first. Prompt care is also needed when jaw pain on chewing appears together with headache or changes in vision.
Please note which side the sound comes from, whether it happens when opening or closing your mouth, and whether pain and catching occur together. It also helps to tell us whether you chew on one side only, grind your teeth, or often eat hard or chewy food, and whether there was any recent impact. We also check whether neck and shoulder pain, headache, ringing in the ears, pain around the eyes, or facial numbness or tension are present.
A clicking sound from the jaw when you open your mouth is one of the self-check items. However, the temporomandibular joint can protrude like a disc and can also make sounds when torn, so do not conclude on your own just because it makes a sound; please have it checked in an examination.
The TMJ disorder self-check items include stiffness and pain in the neck and shoulders. Neck and shoulder symptoms can also be checked on the forward head and straight neck posture page.
The self-check items include symptoms such as TMJ-related headache, tinnitus, and pain around the eyes. For information on headaches, please see the headache and migraine page.
The self-check items include facial asymmetry, facial numbness, and facial tension. Facial asymmetry is also looked at in the Asymmetry clinic.
Difficulty opening and closing the mouth is a self-check item. However, if limited mouth opening is severe there may be another cause, so please do not decide on your own and have it checked through a consultation.
We look at whether your jaw clicks when you open your mouth, whether the jaw joint area feels stiff and painful, whether opening and closing your mouth is difficult, whether your neck and shoulders are stiff and painful, whether you have TMJ-related headache, tinnitus, or pain around the eyes, and whether you have facial asymmetry, facial numbness, or facial tension.
If a specific tooth hurts or a problem with tooth alignment or bite is suspected, it is good to have it checked at a dental clinic first. If jaw sounds and pain come with neck and shoulder stiffness, headache, or facial tension, a Korean medicine clinic can look at the jaw joint and the upper cervical spine together.
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Teo Korean Medicine Clinic Bundang: TMJ disorder care, patients come to us from Geumgok-dong·Jeongja-dong·Gumi-dong·Sunae-dong·Seohyeon-dong·Imae-dong·Yatap-dong.
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