TMJ is a function of your deflating skull

Temperomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) is the dysfunction of the TMJ joint and is rocketing up in terms of sufferers. But it is completely misunderstood.

So there are literally thousands of dentists out there who claim to be ‘TMJ experts’. And I find this hilarious.

I think history will literally laugh at them.

Because to focus on your TMJ is like saying you’re going to be a car mechanic who focuses only on the steering wheel.

Is the steering wheel important? I guess a little bit. But it’s a small piece in an overall system…. ie. the overall car.

I consider the TMJ joint to be exactly the same. It is a small piece in this complex structure that we call the skull. It just happens to be the joint that lights up in pain the most and therefore draws a lot of attention.

But to focus on it is useless.

Each time I have fixed myself I paid zero attention to the TMJ joint.

As we said before, the root cause of the problem is that your skull deflates

So if you haven’t read this article about my ‘balloon theory’ you need to read it to understand what I am saying here.

So why do the teeth relate to your body and neurology?

Basically the loss of dental height (or the wrong occlusion) deflates the skull, which collapses onto the brain and deranges your cranial bones and spine.

And you should think of your skull and jaw as sitting inside this balloon as two pieces connected by soft tissue. As you take air out of the balloon (the soft tissue of the skull), what does physics tell you is going to happen?

Well.. of course the jaw is going to twist into some other position the smaller the balloon gets. And since its attachment point to the skull is the TMJ joint, of course this joint is going to get screwed up.

You cannot inflate the balloon by focusing on the TMJ

Given this new deflated balloon and deranged skull can you fix the problem by trying to do things to the TMJ?

No of course not! That would make no sense given the physics

Let’s go back to the balloon metaphor and imagine that you’ve put a model skull connected by rubberbands to a jaw inside of it.. and then deflated it.

The jaw would be in a twisted position inside the balloon.

Would twiddling with the rubberbands help the situation at all? Of course not.

And so logically you should focus on inflating the skull

How would you go about fixing the TMJ in my balloon example? Simple.. you would first need to inflate the balloon.

And that is what I do with my method.

Then as the balloon inflates to its healthy size the jaw inside it will move to its anatomically healthy position.

And when that happens… voila! The TMJ has now also fixed itself because the jaw and skull are now correctly positioned in relation to each other.

Visualize it! It’s simple physics!

I am not just talking theory… i’ve done this a few times

Now this may sound like ‘theory’… but I have literally felt this happen each time I fixed myself… starting in about 2016 or so.

Usually near the end you even feel a spasmed muscle painfully release in the TMJ area and loads of crap leaks out of your ear.

And the jaw repositions to its correct position, which happens in tandem with a major improvement in both your spine and facial symmetry.

I’ve done all of this several times in the past, but unfortunately screwed it up each time.

Why? Well beyond me sometimes being a bit too much of a self-experimentation nut…. I also had some wrong concepts in my head back then, which i’ve now corrected.

And so now I am working on doing it for the last time in the coming months.

My Advice to the TMJ Crew out there

For the reasons I explained above… I do not believe in doing anything that focuses on the TMJ

I’ve seen tons of folks say that they are doing all kinds of TMJ-related surgeries in the past.

And not surprisingly… i have never heard a positive story come out of this.

Like as in ZERO!

If you know of someone that had this done at least a few years ago and claims they’re doing great and happy they did it.. then by all means please call me out on this!

I do not think it will happen and I spent lots of time on the TMJ Facebook boards back between 2015 - 2019.

So if you’re seeing one of those dentists proclaiming to be a ‘TMJ expert’, who is saying you should pay him $thousands to do some type of surgery or intervention, my advice is….

“Run like the fucking wind!”

And then keep reading my blog and fix your own shit for next to nothing ;)