Disorders of the temporomandibular joint and the muscles of mastication are considered new epidemic. An interdisciplinary treatment can correct the Craniomandibular dysfunction successfully. Many people regularly suffer from back, pine -, Masticatory -, Temporomandibular joint, neck or head pain, noises in the temporomandibular joint or tinnitus. These symptoms can be also pain behind the eyes, light sensitivity and blurred vision or other muscular or joint-related pain, features of a so-called Craniomandibular dysfunction (CMD). The Craniomandibular dysfunction includes all painful and non-painful complaints arising from on structural, biochemical and psychological dysregulation of the muscle, and/or Temporomandibular joint function. Cause of the CMD is usually that the interplay of soft and solid structures in the head region is in disequilibrium, the muscles tense and now produces pain.
Triggers are often a sustained psychological tension in professional and family, lack of physical activities, not balanced nutrition, as well as sleep disorders. Pain in the mouth may cause but also the pine false growth, tooth decay, or diseases of the teeth holding apparatus. Also pine regulations, fillings, or dentures may overuse natural adaptability of involved tissue in the head region and cause a CMD. Required in this country is the Craniomandibular dysfunction still largely unknown specialists. Even many ENT doctors, orthopedic surgeons and dentists ignore that there may be a connection between the musculoskeletal system and the Craniomandibular dysfunction when about the interplay between of the teeth of the upper and lower jaw does not work and leads to a faulty bite location. Who considered that nocturnal clenching and grinding produces a chewing load of 400 to 800 Newton, can imagine, that the pressure charge the surrounding muscles and in the long term to tension and pain in other parts of the support and Musculoskeletal system may result.