Boston TMJ Treatment is Effective Without Mouthguards

Dr. Robert Kerstein of Boston MA uses no mouthguards or appliances to treat TMJ problems. He hasn't used them for over 25 years, since he began researching TMJ with the T-Scan III Occlusal Computer in 1984.

This computer-guided TMJ Treatment has been shown in numerous published studies since 1991, to be a much faster, and a more effective, and permanent TMJ Treatment, than any Mouthguard or Appliance-based TMJ Treatment.

Dr. Robert Kerstein's study of the T-Scan occlusal technology has led to him find that:

• Most TMJ patients rarely need Nightguards, Mouthguards, oral appliances, NTIs, or TENS deprogramming to have rapid significant symptom resolution

The computer-guided TMJ treatment has also been shown in many studies to be able to stop nightime tooth grinders from actually grinding their teeth while they sleep. Even these diffiicult TMJ patients don't need to sleep with an appliance once properly treated.

Up until the time of the development of the T-Scan system, Mouthguards were necessary because the Bite Problems that cause TMJ Pain were not known or understood by TMJ Dentists. A Mouthguard works by sitting between teeth to stop them from touching. This often helped TMJ pain, as long as the patients had their Mouthguard or Appliance in place.

However, once the Appliance or Mouthguard is removed from the mouth, the TMJ Pain and Symptoms would re-occur again.  

But with the T-Scan III System, a TMJ Dentist can see minute Time and Force Bite Problems that can’t be seen with Articulating Paper at all….The paper marks are "only ink spots on teeth", and cannot measure a TMJ patients occlusal forces in any way...

Truth be told, Dentists mostly guess at which paper marks to treat because research repeatedly shows that paper mark size, shape and color are all unrelated to Bite Forces 

Properly recorded T-Scan data shows a TMJ Dentist exactly what is wrong with the Bite Timing, the Bite Balance, and the Bite Forces within a TMJ patients’ entire mouth.

By correcting these Bite Problems with T scan computer-guidance, the molar teeth stop firing the jaw muscles so TMJ symptoms go away.

In most patients, many of the TMJ Pain and Symptoms noiticeably decline within the first week after treatment has begun….

• And that’s without wearing a Mouthguard or Appliance!!!