Advancing the understanding of temporomandibular joint disease, jaw and facial development, airway health, and the relationship between structure and function.
TMJ Health is a global knowledge platform bringing together patients, clinicians, researchers, educators, and institutions to advance education, research, outcomes, and collaboration in TMJ disease and airway health.
The jaw joint, the airway, the bite, the muscles of the head and neck, sleep, posture, and pain are not separate subjects. They are one system, described by different disciplines that rarely share a language.
Patients live in that one system. Their symptoms cross every boundary the professions have drawn.
TMJ Health exists to put those descriptions back into one conversation — carefully, transparently, and in public.
A fragmented field
Temporomandibular joint disease and airway health sit at the intersection of dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, sleep medicine, otolaryngology, neurology, physical therapy, pain medicine, and radiology. Each discipline sees a real part of the problem. Few see the whole of it.
People, not traffic
Jaw pain. Headaches. Clicking. Locking. Difficulty chewing. Changes in bite. Facial pain. Poor sleep. Difficulty breathing. Sleep-disordered breathing. Obstructive sleep apnea.
They are not looking for a marketing promise. They are looking for an honest account of what is known, what is uncertain, and what questions are worth asking next.
Two knowledge portals
Airway & sleep
Explore the relationship between facial development, jaw position, airway anatomy, breathing, sleep-disordered breathing, and obstructive sleep apnea.
TMJ Health Foundations
The five-film series is being prepared from studio footage. The written foundations can be read now.
Why we exist
Seeing the bigger picture
A different way of thinking
How the joint was designed
When structure and function change
Find your place
Clear explanations of what is happening, what the evidence does and does not support, and questions worth asking. No promises, no pressure.
Diagnostic reasoning, lectures, and protocol architecture designed to sharpen judgement rather than to sell a technique.
Standardised measures, registry methodology, and collaboration on questions no single centre can finish alone.
Teaching material and partnership pathways for programmes building capacity in TMJ disease and airway health.
Curious minds
Registry & outcomes
Measuring the same things, the same way.
TMJ Health is building a longitudinal outcomes framework designed to learn from patient experiences, clinical characteristics, imaging, treatments, function, pain, sleep and breathing, quality of life, and durability over time.
Every Patient. Every Journey. Advancing Knowledge. Improving Lives.
Research & evidence
We want to help discover what comes next.
Educational work distinguishes established knowledge, emerging evidence, expert interpretation, unanswered questions, and hypotheses that still require testing.
Convener
TMJ Health was convened by Scotty L. Bolding, DDS, MS, FACS, to put TMJ disease and airway health into public, interdisciplinary conversation.
Diplomate, American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Fellow, American College of Surgeons.
The TMJ Health Briefing
A periodic briefing on new education, research, registry work, and conversations. Replace this block in HighLevel with a native form. Do not use it as an appointment request.