TMJ stands for temporomandibular joint. However, it is commonly used in reference to disorders or conditions involving jaw movement.
Your temporomandibular joint connects your lower jaw to the rest of your head. It is a flexible joint, allowing your jaw to move up or down and side to side.
TMJ is very different from [...]
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Do you have a white, rough, hard patch in your mouth, like under your tongue or on your cheek? You may be experiencing leukoplakia.
If you’ve had your non-smooth leukoplakia condition for over a week, you need to show it off to your dentist. This oral specialist may want to test it for [...]
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Experiencing a burning sensation in your mouth or on your tongue without “hot food” to blame? There is a condition that can cause a burning sensation for no apparent reason.
Burning mouth syndrome, or burning tongue syndrome, is an annoyingly painful problem that may have you feeling a scalding sensation without a source for cause. [...]
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A metallic taste in your mouth is not an uncommon symptom, and metal tasting is typically not a serious problem.
Your perception of a metallic taste can be due to an assortment of metal mouth factors. However, the most common causes of the unflavorful taste of metal are medications used for treatment of:
antibiotics
kidney stones
antidepressants
prenatal vitamins
anesthetic ~ [...]
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Sweets (sugar) mixed with mouth bacteria creates acid, which causes tooth decay that may eventually have you raging from the toothache pain of a tooth cavity or dental cavities, aka caries.
Did you know that plaque starts to build within a half hour after your consumption of acid promoting foods. Plaque containing acid erodes your [...]
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Are you experiencing dry mouth and concerned that you may be expelling bad breath along the way? Is your mouth so dry that your lips are sticking to your teeth? Ah, that dreaded cottonmouth.
Your saliva, aka spit, is delivered into to your mouth via the salivary gland ducts. Saliva’s function [...]
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Sjogren’s syndrome is an autoimmune disease causing the primary symptoms of dryness in your mouth and eyes. It occurs if your immune system mistakenly attacks your glands that produces saliva and tears. Most afflicted with dry mouth and eyes are women over 40.
Accompanying Sjogrens syndrome symptoms, beyond dry mouth and dry eyes, might include:
fatigue
cavities
dry [...]
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Canker sores are those red or whited coated painful mouth ulcers you may notice inside your mouth. These bothersome sores suddenly crop up, as if out of nowhere:
inside of your lips
base of your gums
under your tongue
insides of your cheeks
Canker sores differ from cold sores or fever blisters, in that those occur outside your mouth. [...]
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If you are experiencing a smell disorder, you’ve either lost your ability to smell or the way you perceive odors has changed. Like all of your senses, the sense of smell plays an important part for living. It serves as a primary warning signal for fire, gas leaks or dangerous fumes.
A lost or changed sense [...]
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Periodontal disease is all about the plaque and tarter. The longer bacteria forming plaque and tartar stay on your teeth, the more harm they cause. Even up to a point of losing some teeth.
When bacteria causes gum inflammation it is called gingivitis. When you experience gingivitis, your gums are red, swollen and bleed [...]
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