Bad Jaw Alignment but no Bite problems?
I am only 22. I had braces for three years (3rd through 6th grade) and I was in a few very bad car accidents. During my sophomore year of college I noticed my jaw hurt considerably….popping, locking (open and closed, etc.) Local dentist told me I had TMJ, and made me a stint to sit on my lower teeth. I wore it for two years, didn’t help, visited a chiropractor for a year, helped some, not much. Another dentist told me that the only teeth that were hitting were my back two molars and they were very cracked. My jaw was very much out of alignment, so he filed my back two teeth down. The only teeth that don’t touch now are the eight teeth up front. My concern is that since I have no normal overbite or underbite (my front teeth practically sit on top of one another) well, how do I fix this, or is it unfixable, and is that what makes my TMJ symptoms worse? How can I set my teeth to where they are supposed to be? You have just about every possible problem that a head pain sufferer has exper
