Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

You will need to see a different dentist to get a diagnosis. The remedy involves wearing a mouth guard night and day for a while until your jaw realigns.

I had TMJ years ago from my toddler jumping suddenly in my lap and hitting the bottom of my jaw, forcing the joint (under the ear) out of alignment. It resulted in terrible pain, as if I had an ear infection. Took several months to get a diagnosis from a dentist who specializes in TMJ. He took an X-ray and confirmed that my jaw joint no longer had enough space between the bones and would need to be widened with a mouth guard/splint.