Indeed, jaw pain can be excruciating, and the exact cause isn't always simple to determine. Aside from the obvious symptoms of discomfort, the signs of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) can be easy ...

Upon moving to Houston in the late 1980s, she met Dr. Mark Wong, a dental surgeon who eventually rebuilt her jaw with natural cartilage and tissue, bringing some relief. Discher-Harm, 40, still ...

The skeleton, tendons, and glands of a functional jaw all derive from the same population of stem cells, which arise from a cell population known as neural crest. To discover how these neural ...