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The term “jaw joint and disorders” refers to a complicated and poorly understood group of problems that cause pain in the jaw and nearby muscles as well as difficulty speaking, expressing oneself facially, eating, chewing, and swallowing normally. In contrast to surgical therapy for jaw joint diseases, the traditional soft occlusal splint therapy is a safer and more successful form of conservative treatment. The Aqualizer, a hydrostatic oral splint, will be discussed in this article as an accurate, efficient therapy and differential diagnostic tool in TMD that enables addressing the patient’s pain fast and accurately while saving significant treatment time.
