by Dr. Brown | Oct 30, 2020 | ALF Appliance, GELB Device, Health & Wellness, Movement Disorder, Orthodontics, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, TMJ Dysfunction
When we see a little kid sucking their thumb, many people think that it looks harmless and sometimes even cute. Little do they know that thumb sucking leads to all sorts of damage to the skull and the airway! In today’s blog I would like to go into some of the reasons... by Dr. Brown | Oct 23, 2020 | ALF Appliance, GELB Device, Health & Wellness, Orthodontics, Patient Experience, TMJ Dysfunction
In our modern society, most of the young people I meet really, really want braces or Invisalign or something to make their teeth look more cosmetic. This is where I need to segue into some of the reasons why doing orthodontic work may not be the right path to take.... by Dr. Brown | Oct 16, 2020 | ALF Appliance, GELB Device, Health & Wellness, MRI, Patient Experience, TMJ Dysfunction
My team members asked me to write about these topics the other day. It seems that many potential new patients who suffer TMJ disorder are calling about what arthroscopy and arthrocentesis actually mean and if they are a candidate for such a procedure. First, let’s... by Dr. Brown | Oct 9, 2020 | ALF Appliance, GELB Device, Health & Wellness, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, TMJ Dysfunction
So many people grind and clench their teeth these days that it is almost becoming the norm in the patients that I see. There are several theories about why we grind our teeth, with perhaps the most common being that we are under stress and take out the tension on our... by Dr. Brown | Sep 11, 2020 | ALF Appliance, GELB Device, Health & Wellness, Patient Experience, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, TMJ Dysfunction
Today is September 9, 2020, and I wanted to do a blog about my experiences these past few months in regard to how our patients are doing with the quarantine and how we are slowly returning to some degree of ‘normalcy’. In the past months as Virginia has gone into the... by Dr. Brown | Aug 21, 2020 | ALF Appliance, GELB Device, Headaches, Health & Wellness, Orthodontics, Patient Experience, TMJ Dysfunction
I see new patients every day who are contemplating doing Invisalign, or aligners of some kind, in order to ‘fix’ either their TMJ problem or to re-align their bite when they already had braces done in the past. There is a chance that doing aligners might help them,...