I was given both a daytime splint and a splint for TMJ dysfunction 4 or 5 years ago. I had a lot of TMJ pain. The splints did nothing to help the TMJ pain and nothing to lessen my tinnitus. It was a total waste of money.

Buy a mouthguard at CVSs for couple dollars and see if that helps at all

Hi I am going through the same thing. I have t and have been in treatment for TMJ for a year.$4k not so bad. It has helped me so very much! Worth it. I will be glad to give you details just e-mail me. Did neuro too. I would say go with the splint as you need to get that fixed. Insurance can help. Splint really helped !!! I will be glad to talk to you about this. Best Deb

What on earth do you get for $4,000? When I hear these kind of prices red flags go up for me! Maybe it's worth it but before I spend that much I would get at least 2 more opinions. I know for 18 bucks you can go to Walmart or CVS and buy and make a custom mouthguard.

I'm sorry you're going through this. I'm in the same boat as you. I have TMJ and tinnitus. That $4000 is really steep to me as well. The NMD I'm going to is charging $2500 for Phase 1, including adjustments, orthotic, etc. I've done traditional TMJ therapy, which has helped my pain some, but not the tinnitus at all. I don't know how long you've dealt with it, but I've started coping better with it than I did. I'm investing a lot of hope and money into this NMD, so I hope I'll get some relief from it. I know of some folks who have. Unfortunately, as you probably know with this tinnitus, there aren't very many guarantees, but sometimes, we find something that works. I hope this is your "something". You're not alone. Good luck to you.

I appreciate the responses and input. To answer your question delta basically phase I entails relaxing my jaw muscles via electrostimulation (TENS Machine) then taking an impression of my bite then making an acrylic orthotic devise. So for $4000 I get an engineered piece of acrylic and several consultations. I am supposed to wear this device as often as possible.

Phase II in the process is braces to premanently shift my teeth to the "correct" position.

I am going to go back to my regular dentist and see what he says about it all. He has never said I have bad teeth and I have never had to have braces.

This neuromuscular dentist I went to seems very competent but did not really ask me much about my tinnitus and did not say expicitly I have TMJ. Just a missaligned bite and chipped teeth etc.

If it was @$1000 or so I'd do it but the red flags are up for me too for $4000.

I had the braces, didn't help the tmj at all. they made a 500 mouthguard, helped somewhat and I bit thru it, couldn't afford another one, got a 10. from CVS or Walmart and helped just as much.

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