07 — Work
TMJ / TMD
The joint most dentists will not touch.
What it is
True TMJ work is rare because it is difficult, and because a wrong bite can make a patient worse. Most rooms fit a night guard and stop. Dr. Tetri spent fifteen years studying the joint after living with the condition himself — trained, privately, by a surgeon whose name he does not publish. The protocol here is gneuromuscular: TENS to quiet the muscle, K7 and EMG to record where the mandible rests, then a therapeutic occlusion before any porcelain. Patients fly to Sunny Isles and to East 40th because almost nobody else will take the risk.
For
01
Clicking, locking, or a joint that will not open fully.
02
Migraines, temple pain, or neck pain that dentistry keeps calling ‘stress’.
03
Crowns that keep fracturing because the bite was never seated.
01 — Deprogram
TENS lets a jaw that has been bracing for years finally rest. We do not guess the bite from a tired muscle.
02 — Record
Computerized mandibular scanning and electromyography show the trajectory and the noise. The joint is data, not a story.
03 — Seat, then restore
An orthotic or a reconstruction holds the therapeutic position. Porcelain follows the joint. Never the other way round.
He treated himself first. That is why he will take yours.
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