• Cosmetic Dentistry
  • General vs. Cosmetic Dentistry
  • Choosing a cosmetic dentist
  • What is the LVI Difference?
  • Characteristics of Award Winning Smiles
  • Cosmetic Procedures/
    Treatments
    • Smile Makeover
      • Questions About Smile Makeover
    • Porcelain Veneers
      • Question About Porcelain Veneers
      • The Dental Veneers Process
    • Full Mouth Restoration
      • Questions About Full Mouth Restoration
    • Tooth Whitening
      • Teeth Whitening Questions
      • Why Should A Dentist Whiten My Teeth?
    • Dental Implants
      • Questions About Dental Implants
      • Dental Implant Candidacy
      • Implants for Supporting Bridges
      • Advantages of Dental Implants
      • A Choice in Anesthesia for Your Dental Implant Surgery
    • Tooth Crowns
      • CEREC: One Day Crowns
      • Questions about Porcelain Crowns
    • Dental Bonding
    • Tooth-colored fillings
    • Porcelain fillings
    • Gum Recontouring
    • Invisalign®
  • Teeth and Aging
• Common Dental Problems
  • Why Do Teeth Darken?
  • Advanced Hygiene and Periotherapy
    • Velscope Oral Cancer Screening
  • Fixing Tooth Decay
• General Dentistry
  • Dental Hygiene Appointments
  • Dental Bridges
  • Dentures / Partials
    • Questions About Dentures
  • What's right for you? Partials vs. Implants
  • Periodontics
  • Preventative Dentistry
  • A Look Back at Dentistry's History
• TMJ / TMD
  • Causes of TMD/TMJ Associated Headaches
  • Neuromuscular Dentistry
  • Questions About Neuromuscular Dentistry
  • Why See a Neuromuscular Dentist?
  • TMJ Treatment Options
  • TMJ and Facial and Neck Pain
• Sleep Apnea
• Metal-Free Dental Practice
• Sedation Dentistry
  • Types of Dental Anesthesia

Neuromuscular Dentistry

Bernardsville, Morristown and surrounding areas in New Jersey

Neuromuscular dentistry deals with the proper alignment of your jawbone, in relation to your teeth and facial muscles. While traditional dentistry evaluates mainly your teeth, bones, and gums, neuromuscular dentistry works with the muscles, nerves, hard tissues and soft tissues. By analyzing how each of these works with the others, a neuromuscular dentist can place your jaw into its ideal position.

If your jaw is misaligned, both the hard and soft tissues are strained, resulting in a number of problems such as:

• Headaches
• Jaw pain
• Neck and shoulder pain
• Ringing in the ears
• Clicking or popping sounds in your jaw joint

With many cases, these symptoms are the result of temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD), an imbalance in your jaw-to-skull relationship that is caused by a bad bite.

TMD

TMD is a chronic, degenerative disease that can take years to surface. This condition affects millions of people across the United States. Fortunately, neuromuscular dentistry can help. A bad bite, called malocclusion is fairly easy to correct. Using advanced technology to determine the position of your bad bite and finding the position for your ideal, relaxed bite, Dr. Patti Swaintek-Lamb can restore the harmony between your jaw, muscles and nerves.

Treatment

Treatment options for a malocclusion include:

• Dental orthotics (bite guards)
• Orthodontics and Invisalign®
• Full mouth restoration

The LVI difference

Dr. Patti Swaintek-Lamb has been trained at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies (LVI). This institute if the premier training center for neuromuscular dentists and cosmetic dentistry. At Aesthetic Dentistry of Bernardsville, our cosmetic dentists have the knowledge and training necessary to effectively realign your bite, and alleviate pain.

Patients of neuromuscular dentistry experience a variety of benefits, ranging from reduced or eliminated pain to enhanced health and longer-lasting dental restorations.

For more informatin, please see Questions about Neuromuscular Dentistry.

If you are suffering from symptoms of a misaligned bite and you live in the Morristown, New Jersey area, please contact Aesthetic Dentistry of Bernardsville today. Our highly trained neuromuscular dentists can help alleviate your pain and correct your misaligned bite. Please call a member of our dental team today to schedule your consultation.