Speaker: -- month when I’ve been so bad and it took a long for this to actually take effect. Dr. Feld kept saying, it’s not going to happen overnight because it’s taken many years to get to this point and sure enough it started to help after that. Those tough times like I said that he had a look at me and hold my hand and be like, okay, Angela, we are getting through this. I remember that and that’s something what a value and that I remember. I am much better. I always say that they are my angels, the entire staff, I tell them, I prayed and you came and everybody, not just Dr. Feld but everybody was extremely kind and compassionate. When you don’t feel low, you need that.
Mike Wiegenstein: Hi Doc, if you would take a minute and explain to everybody, what TMJ is, how it works and how the problems are caused?
Dr. Leonard Feld: The jaw is composed of three components and that’s where the TMJ comes from. The temporal bone, which is up here, which is part of the upper jaw, the mandibular bone, which is the bottom jaw, and that’s the one that moves. Okay, that goes up and down sideways. When they meet together, there is a joint where they come together. In between the two jaws, there is a little disc, it’s called a disc. We know it’s made out of the fibrous cartilage. The fibrous cartilage has the ability to heal its own.
So when the jaw moves, the disc is supposed to stay on top. Then when something like that happens where the disc comes off, it’s when the damage is created. Can you see that it is – the disc is not in place and that the disc does move forward and the jaw, the lower jaw does move further back that it could cut off oxygen supply and create nerve problems to and never damage. It causing these problems to circulation, stomach problems, head problems, back problems, and we get what’s called adaptive posture. People start turning their head and shoulders to adapt to get rid off the pressure that’s been constantly stewing. Then we have back problems due to the brain kind of get position to get circulation back to the brain.
Mike Wiegenstein: I mean normally you would go to the doctor and he would give you medications for the back problem when they never faced --
Dr. Leonard Feld: Absolutely. If you have a headache and a migraine, who you’re going to see? You’re going to see an MD, your doctor. If you have back problems, you’re going to go see a physical therapist or a chiropractor or something like that and to adjust that. If you have dizziness and ear aches, who you’re going to see? You’re going to see an ear doctor, ear, nose and throat specialist, who might really solve it, you should see them, but they are just looking at the ear, the other one is looking at the back, the other one is looking at the eyes to see if there is dizziness, if there is some problem with the eyes. When they don’t see anything but your patient still has these problems, they are just don’t know what to do, which is interesting because you mention surgery.
It’s that we doctors have been doing this for forty some years, helping people with their back aches, neck ache, shoulder pain, fibromyalgia, pain with dizziness, migraines and relieving all these symptoms without surgery and without medication, by simple appliance that we put in their mouth. So it’s not like it hasn’t been done, it is not like reviewing and then we’ve got all the literature and we got the documentation on that and we’ve been doing it and then doing it successfully.
Betty: About 25 years ago, I was standing at a stop sign waiting for the light to change, when a group of truck grounded me. From all those time, I’ve had this terrible neck pain, I’ve gone for massages, I’ve gone chiropractic all these years. Last summer some time, I noticed this funny clicking in my jaw and it bothered my eyes. I was getting so I couldn’t feel my finger tips to mostly pick up ear rings and put them on anything. I was watching I was getting so careful with my walk. If I went to step down the stairs, I’ve had to put my left hand, my leg -- then I will sit all in the stool, my kitchen. About two or three in the morning, I am just distressed down and depressed as I could have really been, I was just really scared the way I was feeling. Through some good friends down here, I found Dr. Feld and I thought, well, I’ve taken the chance before, I am going to take this chance and it turned out for the best. I’d recommend it to anybody.
Dr. Leonard Feld: When I saw her, really the first thing was she was I think she was scared.
Betty: Right.
Dr. Leonard Feld: She was scared and it was coming from the inside that she was scared because it was like what could you possibly do or is there somebody that can help me? So those questions, I tried to answer. But the other thing I saw was that she was perky and yet she was tired. I mean she has this ability to go pass the point of being tired but I get to see that the minute she stopped talking, everything kind of, her shoulders will shove down and she wasn’t her for herself. People who like Betty tend to adapt to the situation and she just does the best she can with what god gave here and that’s they way they look upon and except in Betty’s case she knew something was wrong, so she seek help.
Betty: Well, he is so different than I went ever been to as far as medicine. He’d be telling he has feeling for people and he is here to do a job to help you. He didn’t rush us for anything that day and that’s quite unusual, you know you used to say, hi, goodbye, that’s it, take a pill and go home and I am not into pills.
Dr. Leonard Feld: I did a physical exam and I looked at somethings, then I looked in her mouth and then I checked a few things and I palpated her and touched certain muscles and couple of more on fire and they hurt her. We took the x-ray, we found all kinds of things that weren’t good and we didn’t like them and Betty wanted us to fix them. So Betty has been a very good patient and in a very shorter time, we’ve seen the incredible results.
Betty: Right.
Dr. Leonard Feld: She is always smiling. Even when she was here, when she was in pain and scared, she was smiling, but it was kind of a short smile at that time, it wasn’t the big smile.
Betty: Again, big smile hurt.
Dr. Leonard Feld: Yeah, but she was having all these different symptoms and you wonder and even I do today, how can all these different things be from one for the position of the jaw but that’s the way it works.
Betty: And everyone told me, it’s just the old age, I won’t accept that, old age. And that’s what – well you got to consider your age Mrs. Peterson, yes, no, I don’t have to accept it.
Mike Wiegenstein: You know, the more I talk to people and the more I talk to you, I keep hearing the same thing from your patients over and over, that it’s all about structural problems, but you can’t medicate a structural problem. What does that actually means?
Dr. Leonard Feld: If you have a car that’s out of a line, you can paint the car, you can put grease on it, you can change the tires, change the brakes, but if you don’t know aligning the wheels, they still don’t work, right?
Mike Wiegenstein: So you are saying that because of the structural problem and if you only take the medication then it might mask out the symptoms?
Dr. Leonard Feld: No, it’s kind of like your engines making noise in your car.
Mike Wiegenstein: Right.
Dr. Leonard Feld: So you get some cotton and put it in your ears.
Mike Wiegenstein: You can’t hear it anymore.
Dr. Leonard Feld: You can’t hear, so it’s gone, it’s gone.
Mike Wiegenstein: So it’s kind of a medicine.
Dr. Leonard Feld: You fix the problem. Pills kind of do the same thing.
Mike Wiegenstein: That they are not really fixing the problem.
Dr. Leonard Feld: No, they don’t fix it.
Mike Wiegenstein: They just --
Dr. Leonard Feld: Exactly, they don’t fix anything, they kind of mask. Unfortunately here is the scary part, unfortunately if the engine is still making noise but you don’t hear it, you’re taking more cotton, bigger piece of cotton to keep from hearing the noise, the engine is getting worse. Eventually may be it will -- something will burn out or the wheels will fall off or something but you just – you’re not fixing the problem.
Mike Wiegenstein: What taht means? You know, I met a lot of your patients today and a lot of them repeated the same thing that the medication, they were taking more and more and they were progressively giving worse and worse symptoms from other things. Does it make sense to you, I mean the people who take medicine to relieve one problem but it causes just as many side effects?
Dr. Leonard Feld: Yeah, we don’t really know a lot of the times, after a while, after about ten years of the products in the market, it’s recalled for something else. So a lot of drugs have side effects and with every drug, it has a disclaimer that it could be doing this, it could be doing that. So yeah, you’re masking the problem, you’re not fixing the problem. I don’t really doing --
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