Go to another biologic dentist, this is ridiculous. Get a second opinion. The magnesium idea sounds good and I hope it helps you.

But as for the TMJ and getting all that stuff done? Um, there is NO way I would go through something like that which could financially cripple me, unless my conditino was so bad that my mouth could barely open. also mercury can exacerbate this problem.

I have TMJ myself. My jaw clicks and sometimes it will click and lock and I can barely open my mouth. A lot of that was caused by a dentist who was trying to fit a rubber dam on my mouth and instead of easing the bands between my teeth (as you would sith dental floss), she was pushed hard down and could get it to fit between my teeth, so she leaned over me with her full weight and continued to push down and down (instead of back and forth to ease it) and my jaw was stuffed from then on.

How can a jaw handle the weight of a human being when you're lying down and they are literally on top of you pushing with their full weight. On top of that? She let me swallow mercury during a removal, because she wasn't watching the assistant and the assisant was doing something else when she should have been using the suction. So this stupid dentist removed the rubber down adn let me swallow all the grains of mercury she had just removed that were still sitting in my mouth.

So from that visit, I ended up with a permanent worse jaw problem and acute poisoned from swallowed mercury and I had tremors on the way home from the visit from swallowed mercury. I was so ill I had headaches for days, I was crying and nauseated.

I hate some of them with a passion.

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