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TMJ CONNECTED TO EAR PRESSURE AND EYE PAIN?

How is the TMJ connected to ear pressure and eye pain?

Ear pressure (stuffiness, itching, blocks, vertigo) and Ear pain (otalgia – dull or lancing) may both be caused due to a TMJ dysfunction. Patients would generally meet up an ENT for these issues. If the ENT clears the case stating there was no infection or any other ENT related problems, then the next causal possibility would be the TMJ.
Diagnosis is key.
Ear pressure and ear pain are both physiologically connected symptoms to TMJ dysfunction.
Key Diagnosis due to TMJ
There is a canal that connects the middle ear to the airway (throat region), known as the Eustachian Tube. It regulates the pressure differences on either side of the ear to maintain balance. This tube is controlled by muscles that are supplied by the Trigeminal Nerve. TMJ dysfunction leads to Trigeminal Nerve disorders that then leads to muscles tonicity issues supplied by the nerve. So, if the TMJ is in perfect muscular balance, the Eustachian tube muscles also harmonise with each other and hence end up not causing build up of pressure in the ear.
20% of humans have a vestigeal ligament that connects the TMJ to the middle ear known as the DiscoMalleolar Ligament. Any change in the lower jaw position will exert unwanted pressure on the ligament and hence the middle ear leading to pain. Relaxing the muscles controlling the jaw

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