If you’ve been suffering from symptoms like consistent headaches or jaw pain, it may be time to consider more than how occlusion—the way your teeth meet one another—may be affecting your smile. Although occlusion may play a part in your discomfort, the Office of William C. Poe V, DDS, uses neuromuscular dentistry theories to examine your head, neck, jaws, and most importantly the inner and outer workings of your mouth to test you for TMJ disorder in Los Alamitos. We think it’s important to treat our patients in TMJ pain from the outside in (muscles first, teeth later), rather than from the inside out.