TMJ/TMD Treatment in Leeds, AL

A Plan for Your Jaw, Not Just Your Pain

If you're here because your jaw clicks, locks, or aches — or because headaches and facial tension have become a routine part of your week — you're not imagining it, and you're not alone. Temporomandibular joint disorders, or TMD, affect how your jaw functions, and the symptoms rarely stay confined to one place. They migrate. Jaw soreness becomes ear pain. Tooth sensitivity turns out to be a grinding habit. Morning headaches trace back to how your bite is loaded at night. It's the kind of problem that's easy to dismiss and hard to ignore.

At Aultman Dental Leeds, we don't treat TMD with a one-size-fits-all appliance and a follow-up in six months. We start by understanding exactly what's happening — using advanced imaging, including CBCT scanning, to evaluate your jaw joints, bite relationship, and surrounding structures with the kind of detail a standard x-ray simply can't provide. From there, we build a plan that addresses the source of the problem, not just the symptom.

That plan looks different for every patient. For some, it's a custom occlusal splint that offloads pressure from the joint and gives overworked muscles a chance to settle. For others, it involves bite adjustment, targeted Botox therapy to calm hyperactive jaw muscles, or a coordinated approach across multiple treatment phases. What stays consistent is the process: we tell you what we find, explain what it means, and build the next step with you — not for you.

If you've been managing jaw pain on your own or been told to "just see how it goes," there's a more useful answer waiting. Come in, and let's find it.