Gum Disease Treatment - Popping jaws are miserable.

Popping Jaws Are Miserable - The “TMJ” Syndrome.
By Dr. George Meining,D.D.S.,

When bone shrinks under your dentures the plate settles
down and presses into the soft gums causing sore spots such
as you have been experiencing. This also infringes on facial
and lip muscles and these force the teeth to wobble,loosen,
and clack. The loss of bone support causes more and more
closure of the lower jaw against the upper. In as much as
one’s lower jaw cannot move backward because of its hinge
joint,it can only protrude; stick out in the front,resulting
in that sunken and aged look.

Vitamins won’t stop the soreness,but an adequate intake of
them is essential to good tissue health. It is surprising
and shocking to dentists how many people suffer sore spots
under the dentures for weeks and weeks and even many months.
This is like going around with a pebble in your shoe.
Dentists can readily adjust the dentures to eliminate the
soreness problem.

Some take their teeth out and go toothless rather than put
up with discomfort. I often have to remind these patients
that when they have a flat tire on their car they get it
fixed; they certainly don’t put the car in the garage.
Mastication of three meals a a day is even more important
than an automobile.

For the Dr. Wical investigation oyster shells and vitamin
D were used to supply calcium. I suggest my denture patients
take a good bone meal or calcium lactate supplement along
with cod liver oil capsules for their vitamin D (necessary
for calcium utilization). A good quality multiple vitamin,
mineral tablet that includes amino acids (protein),should
be used because artificial teeth, particulary in those with
severe shrinkage, just do not masticate food like natural
teeth.

I often have patients use calcium lactate as many people
have high phosphorus levels. While  we need sufficient
phosphorus to utilize calcium,the body obtains what is
needed for other purposes by withdrawal from bones.
High phosphorus not only causes osteoporosis bone loss,
but so does sugar,caffeine products, and alcohol. Soft
drinks and lecithin are high phosphorus containing
substances.

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When phosphorus intakes are too low,increased dietary
use of meat,fish,and 100% whole grains is encouraged.
Many people who hve had to replcace their natural teeth
teeth with dentures feel they can avoid all the rules of
good eating… now they can eat all the candy and sweets
their hearts desire. Unfortunately those gums and bony
ridges also depend on good eating for their strength and
health. Being an edentulous cripple is  therefore more
nutritionally demanding and essential than it ever was
before the teeth were lost if good oral and general health
are to be maintained.

When sever shrinkage of the gums has taken place and
faces have collapsed and become old looking,patients
should return to their dentist,as much can be accomplished
in restoring normal appearance by relining old dentures
or making new ones.

Popping Jaws are Miserable.
My jaws almost always are popping and clicking.
It’s so bad my family can hear it when we are eating. I also
have earaches and headaches quite often. Could these be
causing the trouble? My doctor can’t find anything wrong
with my ears and the best he can do is give me tranquilizers
and pain pills which don’t help a bit. My neighbor suggested
vitamins. This doesn’t seem sensible but I thought you
would know. S.L.

Dear S.L.: This is a dental problem that involves the joint
of your jaw. In effect it is like a sprained ankle.
Instead you have a sprained jaw. your foot can be taped
or put in a cast and along with crutches, these help give
the ankle joint rest and time to heal. A talking,eating,
always swallowing mouth is rather hard to place at rest.
We swallow once a minute while awake and every two minutes
during sleep.

The sprained jaw can be caused by injury from accidents or
by degeneration,but 95% of the time the condition is caused
by teeth that do not come together properly. Technically
we call this malocclusion and the jaw problem the “Temporo-
Mandibular Joint” syndrome. (T.M.J.)
Teeth may appear very straight, well aligned and even
beautiful to look at and still be out of relationship with
one another when closing to bite and chew.