Do you ever wake up in the morning with a sore jaw, throbbing head and nagging feelings of stress? And on top of that, you feel like you didn’t sleep a wink? If that sounds like you on a regular basis ...

Winnetka dentist Michael Czarkowski is using Botox, a trademarked purified botulin neurotoxin, to treat his dental patients with chronic pain linked to issues like teeth grinding and clenching.

BOTOX® is the name for a drug derived from a purified form of botulinum toxin, a protein from the Clostridium botulinum bacteria. This bacteria is associated with some cases of food poisoning. However ...

Learn the biological triggers of grinding and find medical treatments to protect your jaw and sleep better tonight.

Before I’d ever heard the term TMJ, I used to refer to my “crunchy jaw” when discussing my stress levels with friends and family. The tension in my jaw, the headaches, the clicking sounds and teeth ...

At a recent teeth cleaning appointment, I mentioned experiencing pain in my jaw—an annoying cracking or popping sensation—from clenching and teeth grinding. “Do you want us to inject Botox into your ...

For teeth that are deeply ground down, like my incisors, Rhode might rebuild them using composites: layers of resin applied by hand, closely matching the original colour and opacity of each tooth, for ...