By Brett Kelman, KFF Health News, Anna Werner, CBS News (TNS) A TMJ patient in Maine had six surgeries to replace part or all of the joints of her jaw. Another woman in California, desperate for relief, used a screwdriver to lengthen her jawbone daily, turning screws that protruded from her neck. A third in New York had bone from her rib and fat from her belly grafted into her jaw joint, and twice a prosthetic eyeball was surgically inserted into the joint as a placeholder in the months it took to make metal hinges to implant into her jaw. “I feel like Mr.

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  • The horrors of TMJ: Chronic pain, metal jaws and futile treatments
    A TMJ patient in Maine had six surgeries to replace part or all of the joints of her jaw. Another woman in California, desperate for relief, used a screwdriver to lengthen her jawbone daily, turning ...
    04/22/2024 - 1:43 am | View Link
  • The horrors of TMJ: Chronic pain, metal jaws and futile treatments
    Dental care for TMJ can do patients more harm than good, and a few fall into a spiral of futile surgeries that may culminate in their jaw joints being replaced with metal hinges, according to ...
    04/16/2024 - 2:34 am | View Link
  • The horrors of TMJ: Chronic pain, metal jaws, and futile treatments
    A TMJ patient in Maine had six surgeries to replace part or all of the joints of her jaw. Another woman in California, desperate for relief, used a screwdriver to lengthen her jawbone daily ...
    04/5/2024 - 6:48 am | View Link
  • TMJ horrors include chronic pain, metal jaws, futile treatments
    Dental care for TMJ can do more harm than good, and a few fall into a spiral of futile surgeries that might culminate in their jaw joints being replaced with metal hinges, according to medical and ...
    04/4/2024 - 11:30 pm | View Link
  • The horrors of TMJ: chronic pain, metal jaws, and futile treatments
    Dental care for TMJ can do patients more harm than good, and a few fall into a spiral of futile surgeries that may culminate in their jaw joints being replaced with metal hinges, according to ...
    04/4/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
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