I dont know for sure if I have TMJ, but I had a dental surgery of recent (got 3 tooth pulled out from my left jaw). My maxofacial surgeon says I can open my mouth wide so its not TMJ, but I seem to have all the classic symptoms.
facial pain, numbness on my nose, my bite feels off to me, sometimes I bite my toungue, sometimes speech is slurry and excess saliva (gland under my tongue feels a bit painful)/Also have a burning tongue.
So since you hae TMJ, let me know if you have any thing like that.
To answer your question - yes when I touch the top roof of my mouth, all the nerve or muscle (?) come back....so my nose starts tingling and becomes numb. I have some tingling on top of my head also.
I am stuck between nueralagia or TMD, cant figure out which one I am having.
On top of that, an upper cervial chiro has told me my C1, C2 is off....great right ? More confusion. Dont know which one to treat first. uuuuuuugh!
Mita