San Diego Computerized Bite Alignment - Computerized Bite Alignment Dental Doctor, Dentist and Surgeon

A highly advanced computerized program that enables us to balance your bite and get the forces in your mouth to the best that they can be.

We are able, through the precision of computers, to align your teeth so there is optimal balance of forces betwen your jaw, teeth, gums, and muscles. This gives us the best way to get get stability over time and prevent wear.

Neuromuscular Dentistry

We utilize a number of sophisticated instruments in our practice of neuromuscular dentistry to find the establish a balance zone betwee jaw joints, muscles, teeth, and gums.

The first goal of neuromuscular dentistry is to find the position of the jaw where the muscles are relaxed and at rest. This is a three dimensional position in space and is often irrespective to the position of the teeth.

We utilize a device called a Myo-Monitor to relax the muscles. It is a low frequency T.E.N.S. (Transcutaneous Electrical Neural Stimulation) unit. This device delivers a mild electrical impulse to the muscles that move the jaw. The rhythmic pulsing (once every 1.5 seconds) relaxes the muscles. In addition to relaxing the muscles, it sets up ideal muscle function by increasing blood flow, flushing out toxins. We often find that after 45 minutes of stimulation, the muscles are in their ideal position.


At this point we utilize the K-7, our computerized diagnostic equipment to record this position and transfer it to casts or models of your teeth.

The Computerized Mandibular Scanning Unit utilizes a magnet placed in front of your lower front teeth and a sensor array to measure and record this ideal position in three dimensions.

The Eight Channel Electro-myograph is used to verify that this new position results in decreased muscle activity. Muscle activity is measured by recording the amount of electrical activity in individual muscles.

Sonography is another parameter that is measured by our K-7. A set of sensitive microphones that look like headphones are worn over the joints. These measure joint sounds, pops, and where they occur in the opening and closing of the joints. These sounds can then be analyzed with respect to frequency which allows evaluation of joint damage.

Once we have verified the comfortable position of the lower jaw, we can fabricate an orthotic that allows the jaw to close to this ideal position. In this position, the muscles are at an ideal length and will not go into spasm. Muscles will heal, pain trigger points will go away, and joint capsules will heal. This orthotic is left in place for three months to stabilize the bite and insure that all symptoms are gone.

At this point a decision is made to wear the orthotic indefinitely, have orthodontics done to move the teeth to this ideal position, have one or two arches of teeth restored, or to adjust the bite to this ideal position. For more information on neuromuscular dentistry, please contact our office.

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