Diagnosing Houston’s TMJ
Advanced Technology. Gentle Treatment.
The first step in d iagnosing TMJis helping your jawrelax with the TENS unit . The TENS gently uses light electrical impulses to help your jaw muscles relax. This allows waste products like lactic acid to drain out of your muscles, relieving pain and tension as well as helping your jawmove into its optimal position.
Once your jawis relaxed, we use the Myotronics K7 system to measure and evaluate your biteand its functioning. It takes gentle, non-invasive measurements of your jawand gives us comprehensive data about your bite and the TMJ jointthat helps us develop your treatment plan. We also use sonography as an evaluation tool. This scan helps us to listen to the TMJ soundsand compare them to normal data. We evaluate the duration of the sounds and exact location of the sounds during jaw opening and closing.
