Jaw pain and sleep experts
Pain relief with the most modern and holistic treatments
- Specialised and expert clinicians
- Over 30 years of experience
- Personalised treatment
- Non-surgical evidence based treatments with effective results
Are you aware of grinding or clenching your teeth? Do you wake up with sore, stiff muscles around your jaws? Do you have frequent headaches or neck aches? If you are experiences any of these or a variety of other symptoms such as jaw pain you may be a candidate for TMJ (temporomandibular joint) Therapy.
We believe firmly in treating the whole patient and not just their mouths. He understands that each case is different, and that every patient comes in with their own unique set of difficulties and hopes for treatment.
About Us
Dr Joseph Ryan
Oral Medicine Specilaist
BMedSc (USyd) BDSc (CSU) BSc (Hons 1) (CSU) MSc (Pain Medicine) (USyd) DCD FOMAA (Oral Medicine) (MelbU)
Senior Lecturer and Head of Discipline in Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology at Charles Sturt University
Adjunct Senior lecturer The University of Melbourne
Secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Orofacial Pain academy
Visiting Specialist Royal North Shore Hospital Pain Clinic
Current President Australian Medical Photobiomodulation Therapy Association
Dr Joseph Ryan is originally from Canberra where he worked as a dentist alongside his father and brothers in private practice. In addition he held the position of Senior Dentist for ACT Health working at The Canberra Hospital, public clinics and in the Alexander Maconchie Correctional Centre. He graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Medical Science Degree in 2009 and from Charles Sturt University with a Bachelor of Dental Science in 2014. He was the only student in his graduating dental class to complete a two year research honours in facial pain graduating with First Class Honours in 2016. . Joseph was awarded winner of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR), Western Region competition for 2015 on Pain Perception and Changes in Masseter Muscle Activity During Clenching Exercises With Isotonic and Hypertonic Bolus Injections. After winning this prize he was granted funding to present at the IADR conference in Seoul, South Korea in June 2016. Joseph was awarded the same prize again in 2016 for my work on the Treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders Using Stabilising Appliance Therapies in a General Dental Practice Setting and was granted funding to present at the IADR conference in San Francisco, USA in 2017.
More recently he has completed a Masters of Pain Medicine at Sydney University graduating in 2019 and graduating from Melbourne University with a Doctorate in Clinical Dentistry in the specialty field of Oral Medicine. During his Doctorate in Clinical Dentistry he completed a research project on Photobiomodulation Therapy in the Management and Prevention of Oral Mucositis at the Sydney Adventist Hospital. He received the Melbourne University Post-graduate research prize for this research and the Research prize in innovation from the Sydney Adventist Hospital.
As an oral medicine specialist he works in various sleep clinics and is a an expert in TMJ therapy
Dr Michael Ryan
BDS Master s of Science in Medicine (Pain management - Orofacial Pain)
Dr Ryan has been practicing in the Canberra region since 1980 and is our principal dentist here at Symmetry Dental.
Michael has a keen interest in a comprehensive, holistic approach to dentistry. His commitment to a ‘big picture’ approach to TMJ pain has seen him seek out advanced studies in gnathology and occlusion; orthopaedic orthodontics; craniofacial pain; and sleep medicine.
has recently completed a Masters at Sydney University medical school in pain management with a specialisation in orofacial pain. During his 40 year career in dentistry he has also completed mini-residencies at the Pankey Institute, Tufts University (Sleep Medicine).