A girl from East Sussex suffered from TMD after having two teeth removed and a brace fitted in at the age of 11. She suffered from many common symptoms associated with TMJ problems. Read the full article here: https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3616340.stm

Jon-Kar Zubieta and his team at the University of Michigan discovered that tough guys and whimps carry different forms of a gene related to dopamine, the COMT gene. Volunteers used in this study were given salt water injections directly into the TMJ and recorded the individual's own pain responses...

Dr Gordona Vunjak-Novakovic from Columbia University used stem cells taken from bone marrow to create the temporomandibular joint in the lab. They hope they could use this to graft in defects in people suffering from TMJ problems and tranform the way they carry out reconstruction work. Dr...