Everything you've ever wanted to know about corrective jaw surgery.

TMJ stands for temporomandibular joint disorder, which is characterized by an inflammation of the aforementioned joint. This join is responsible for connecting the jawbone, or mandible, to the rest of the skull, just below the ear.

While there are many causes and symptoms of TMJ, patients suffering from this condition can experience very different levels of pain, ranging from extreme to none at all. Sometimes, there is a popping or clicking with no pain at all, while other times there is acute pain with simple acts like chewing or talking.

Bruxism, or grinding of your teeth while asleep, is one possible cause that builds over time, or a sudden and forceful impact or trauma to the jaw can bring on symptoms almost immediately.

Usually in older patients, osteoarthritis can even be the culprit, wearing the joint down and causing misalignment and degeneration.

The problems aren’t isolated to the bone however, as surrounding tissues can be affected as well, resulting in seemingly unrelated symptoms like headaches, dizziness, ear pain, and even varying degrees of loss of hearing.

Treatments for TMJ can vary as wildly as the symptoms. Minor cases can be helped with something as simple as an anti-inflammatory, but the most severe cases may even require extensive surgery to fix the joint.

One such treatment that you might not think of at first is chiropractic care. As with any condition, surgery should only be treated as a last resort, and alternative and non-invasive options should be exhausted first.

Practitioners like Dr. Mohr, a Tampa chiropractor, use specific massage and alignment techniques to reduce the inflammation and release the tension in the areas surrounding the joint.

By manipulating several muscles around the area, including the sternocleidomastoid, trapezius, medial pterygoid, and masseter, chiropractors can not only help relieve the pain, but potentially get to the root of the problem as well.

Stretching and working the jaw through specific exercises can breakup fibrous connections that resulted from trauma, thereby enhancing the flexibility and restoring proper range of motion and function.

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Medical negligence is a wide legal area, covering all areas of medical care – from the initial diagnosis of a condition, to the actual treatment and the after-care provided. Thus medical negligence cases can involve injury or illness resulting from failed surgical procedures, poor standards of hospital care or a failure to accurately diagnose a condition in the first place, amongst a number of other forms of negligent medical care. Therefore it is no surprise that companies specialising in personal injury or illness resulting from medical negligence are kept busy, and that sometimes major cases make the news headlines. However there are also a lot of serious medical negligence cases prosecuted by these firms which do not make the news.

One form of medical negligence which can have devastating consequences both for the victim but also for any family and/or dependants is that of injury or illness arising from the misdiagnosis of a condition. This can lead to the wrong course of treatment being prescribed – potentially worsening the condition that the patient is suffering from. It can also ensure that a potentially curable condition worsens to the point that it becomes incurable. Although this scenario is closest to what actually occurred in the case in question, fortunately the negligent diagnosis did not lead to a fatality. In this case the patient involved, a 25 year old man, was referred to the urology department of a major hospital, by his GP after the man had complained to him of feeling pain and a lump in his right testicle. The doctor employed by the hospital diagnosed an infection and a course of antibiotic treatment, failing to take an ultrasound or to schedule a follow-up appointment to check on the condition.

It was the patient’s GP who organised an ultrasound, five months later, following the failure of the initial treatment. This discovered a cancerous lump in the patient’s testicle, which required surgery and chemotherapy and the medical negligence case centred on the belief that, had the case been correctly diagnosed at the initial stage, the chemotherapy treatment would have been unnecessary. The hospital trust concerned eventually settled out of court for medical negligence compensation rather than attempt to defend the treatment offered.

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Although authorities differ as to the exact measurements, the aesthetic caused by square jaw is the result of a certain proportionality and shape of the jaw when compared to the rest of the face. Concerning shape, a harshly angular jaw line that creates right angles at the chin, just in front of the neck, and just below the ear is evidence of square jaw.

This condition is often the result of a pronounced masseter muscle, the muscle that facilitates jaw motion. Square jaw often renders one “chubby” in the face when it is really not fat, but muscular prominence and bone structure that give the appearance.



Botox injection can effectively lessen the prominence of the masseter muscle by weakening it. After the injection, the muscle will decrease in size while still retaining its functional capacity. This encourages a subtle yet noticeable reduction in the appearance of square jaw; giving the face a sleek, streamline appearance. The three aforementioned angles in the jaw will be rounded as a result, not banked. As it concerns as the injection site, either side of the jaw will work.

As cosmetic surgery is usually not required, Botox treatment is an appropriate first option in avoiding it. The effects of Botox injections last up to six months, a fitting trial period for anyone concerned with the possible consequences of cosmetic surgery. The muscular atrophy caused as a result of the injections is reversible, should anyone change their mind between injections. From this point, surgery, injections, or no treatment whatsoever are all options. The cost of botox also offers an incentive, as it is much cheaper than most surgical procedures.

A major surgical procedure in neutralizing square jaw is jaw implant surgery. A relatively less invasive procedure depending on the amount of work that gets done on the jaw, most of these surgeries are done with moderate anesthesia and an incision made inside the mouth.



Jaw shaving is also a viable yet more invasive option in deterring the square jaw look permanently. This procedure essentially shaves down unsightly protrusions to increase the uniformity and slenderness of the jaw bone, much as Botox injections do.



As much as the face represents personality and inner beauty, any longstanding issues with facial appearance that can be cured should be explored. To do so while avoiding surgery at the low cost of Botox is grounds for celebration, courtesy of Botox.

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