How to Use Oral Appliances in Calming Muscle Movements

Anthony B. Sims: My name is Dr. Anthony Sims. I am a dentist here in Columbia. King Solomon says in Proverbs 4, wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom, but with all by getting, get understanding. We have knowledge of the structures of the dental system but we do not fully understand its function. In my study of -- god has helped me to understand the depth of how our systems are interconnected. Specifically speaking, we are talking about movement disorders and within movement disorders, Tourette's syndrome. In the 1800s, Dr. Gill also read, role of outpatients who had involuntary ticks and body movements, what about the witness. Our patients who we have treated, who have been diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome, whose quality of life we have enabled to increase. Good morning. How are you doing? Alright, Lamar has Lamar: Tourette's Syndrome. Anthony B. Sims: And you have it since? Lamar: Since I was I think when nine, ten. Anthony B. Sims: Okay. Tell me about the syndromes that you get? Lamar: I get -- which call me to blink my eyes, facial wetness, having my jaw opening up, closing. Mostly the head jerk to the waist, jerk to my waist, hours of -- and that’s pretty much it. Anthony B. Sims: Great. Lamar: I’ll adjust my cloth all the time, just kind of – Anthony B. Sims: Okay. What about the eyes? Lamar: Oh, yeah, yeah, I have a part of my right – oh sorry – my right eye is lazy. If I look straight at you, it will whirl away actually and I make think like, oh, I can’t really see. It started really in school, I would get --, put out of the class because teachers figured out I was disrupting class or whatever. I was one of the best readers in my class and just to have a reason to get me out of the school, they try to add reading problems and learning disability just before – know what to –. Once everybody found out what it was. Basically it was, basically I’ll go from doctors to neurologists and to type of muscle relaxes, given type of medication – all of drugs just to try to calm me down. Anthony B. Sims: How do you like when that occurs? Lamar: I don’t like them at all because I am a real upbeat type person and I play sports, always trying to stay on the go but with the muscle relaxers, then I will get a rash from I would always be feel tired like mummified just down and out. Even though my -- suppressed, I mean my whole life was suppressed too because I wouldn’t have the urge to do anything. Anthony B. Sims: There you go. Lamar: As you can see, even though I am not all, really I am actually trying to still suppress from my cheeks. But as you can see, most of my cheeks confer my shoulder to my ear, my shoulder to my ear and they are the ones that actually caused me. This is actually my strong side, I am right handed and like sports and I do everything with my right hand. As you can see, my hand never completely open, my hand never really completely opens because of some of the damage that I always done from my tips. And this is my actually my left side. As you can see, it’s more definition and this is how this one is supposed to look. My shoulder is loose, very, very loose; I think they are not supposed to be. This actually dislocated and that bones is the actually shoulder blade, it’s very high and my pollen socket is just hanging. Anthony B. Sims: And you are on good. They had scheduled you for how many treatments? Lamar: Okay. Anthony B. Sims: Have any of them helped you? Lamar: They scheduled me for like four treatments. Then and the second time, they were longer. Anthony B. Sims: And this in both times? Lamar: No, it is just one or more than one. So just for me to get MRI, you can -- I can’t -- I had to either get anesthesia for what she says what my doctor, they were saying, she was going to deal with having take two tablets of valium just to put me completely out and then I would have someone bring the new -- certain procedure for MRI. I’ve got, I am getting a lot weakening from ahead of cheeks, come from my right shoulder. When my shoulder right here, my shoulder actually comes out of, it actually comes out of the socket like right now. There was a lot of weakness and also if you can get my hand, when I hold both arms out, I can extend my left but my right won’t extend at all. If you can see that my arm is just not moving at all. As you can see all the definition in my left side and my biceps, but when this part goes up, you won’t see, that’s because of my neuro damage that I’ve already done from the cheeks. Anthony B. Sims: Alright? The -- okay? He just now took his deep breath. When we find a Tourette's patients, they take a new deep breath like we won.