The dentist that is gonna fix me is right around the next corner

This is the mindset of the vast majority of TMJ patients. But the reality is... he's not around the next corner because he doesn't exist.

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There are so many people chasing their tails with this TMJ stuff.

The subreddit on TMJ is a perfect example. Post after post of people who are lost and confused. And in pain.

They usually have stories of going to several dentists and just getting worse.

They ask for help.

Many of them think that the ‘right’ dentist is tucked away somewhere and they just need to try a bit harder to find them.

Unfortunately…. my experience says that that is not going to be the case.

And today i’m going to dive into this psychology further.

The hunt for the right dentist

As you read some of these posts you start to understand the mindset of folks. They’re hunting for the ‘best’ dentist.

The one with all the answers.

The one that figured this shit out despite the fact that so many dentists have not.

And so these folks get referrals on these forums and then spend their valuable savings trying to be treated by them.

Sometimes they travel to remote parts of the world. For example just recently i’ve seen posts where the patient was touting how it was ‘completely worth it’ to travel to Philippines or Mexico to see some specialist.

It is this ‘savior’ mindset. They’re looking for someone to save them.

Accumulating false knowledge

The longer you are in this TMJ game, the more knowledge you ‘think’ you accumulate.

The problem is that it is false knowledge in my view.

Because part of what the dentists were taught and propagate is wrong.

Think about it…. if they were not at least partly wrong then why would you have all these thousands of people going in circles with various dentists?

I mean is that not what you see on these dental facebook groups and forums?

And if dentists were taught exactly the right thing about TMJ then it wouldn’t happen.

Watch out for the ‘expert’ patient who talked to lots of dentists

Some patients start spouting out all of this technical dental knowledge on the forums.. these are the most dangerous types in my view.

Meaning that they will actually consider themselves smart and give advice to other patients about what to do because they’ve ‘educated’ themselves by talking to lots of dentists.

But then when you ask them the simple question.. “So have you solved your shit?” And they start to explain all the excuses of why their case is extra complex, etc etc

I was pretty fucked up a few times since 2014… but now i don’t have that sob story. I actually did fix my shit.

And so which one of us is better qualified to give advice?

The guy who is going in circles for years and is still fucked?

Or me who has not only fixed his own shit but can probably point to around 8 other people at this point who he has fixed?

Anyway, i give up against these types.. it is just a waste of my time to argue with them.

I’ve found that testing stuff on yourself is the true way of how you get smarter

This is very unintuitive in the medical sphere but extremely intuitive in other spheres like business.

What i mean is… for medical problems you would typically not think to just try solving the problem yourself. That would almost seem stupid.

That is what doctors go to medical school for after all.

But in other spheres like starting a business…. the best way to create a business is probably by just starting one as soon as possible. And then iterating on it.

As a tech startup guy for over a decade I know this mindset well. It is ingrained in me.

And once you see how this stuff works… i actually think this test & iterate approach works the best to crack this puzzle.

There are not that many different ways to set the jaw after all. So you test the various possibilities and closely track what happens. That is what i did for literally years.

The important thing to develop is some type of measure of success. And that is where my tracking splint and ‘curve of spee’ were major breathroughs that enable you to do exactly that.

Unfortunately most folks are gonna learn what i’ve said above the ‘hard way’

Meaning that I can sit here and write and explain it all i want. Most people are gonna be immune to it.

They were brainwashed into a different reality. A reality where dentists are the masters and what they say must be true.

Despite the fact that that logically cannot be the case if all these people are still screwed after going to many dentists.

And so when I come along onto some of these groups and say that i have the answer… they just don’t want to hear it.

As in they literally get angry and troll my thread as if i’m a threat to their very existence.

They don’t wanna believe that the reality they’ve grown accustomed to can be wrong.

But… in these coming months and years… I plan to expose the truth. By enabling a lot of people to get out of this nightmare.