Dr. Deepa Jayashankar Podcast

Whenever there is a problem with the jaw, most of the  times if it  does not  bite  into  a proper articulation, it Can cause problems to the  temporomandibular joint. So there are studies which  say that temporomandibular joint  pain has  co morbidity   with sleep  apnea, which means the patients have sleep apnea will have TMJ issues and otherwise. Both can  try  to aggravate  the other  factor. Most  of  the  times, when  we  have  patients like  this, we  always  try  to ask for their  sleep history  and also check  how their occlusion is  and we  try  to correct  it   if  it  is looks like if it is  malaligned  jaw and if it  looks like malaligned this  at anytime when there is a malalignment, it is  going to take maximum hit. So    we don’t want  that joint to wear off, because it is    irreversible process. so we   try maximum   times to  correct the  malocclusion  or the malalignment and  check in the sleep history if the   patient  is  suffering from apnea and if  we try and help  out  the  patient gets relief  from  sleep apnea and it is TMJ, then concurrently  sleep apnea, but most of the time  the two  are interrelated.