04/14/2026
I had the honor of writing the Preface for Amazon's newest book on Amazon.
“Biomechanical Brain – Rewiring Health from Teeth to Toes”
CONNECTING THE SILOS – Dr. Mac Lee DDS
TMJ—more correctly called TMD—is one of the most misunderstood
pain conditions in the world. It is misunderstood by the public, by
dentistry, by medicine, and by nearly every healthcare profession that
touches the pain patient.
Each health profession exists for a good reason. Each one treats a
specific part of the body. Each one has become highly refined and
specialized. But in becoming so specialized, they have lost focus of the
body as a whole. Each one work in silos.
The dentist focuses on the bite.
The chiropractor focuses on the spine.
The massage therapist focuses on muscles.
The medical doctor focuses on symptoms and disease.
Each sees only their piece of the puzzle.
But the pain patient does not live in pieces.
The hips, the spine—especially C1 and C2—the jaw, and the bite are all
part of one connected system. When one is out of alignment, the others
must compensate. When compensation becomes overload, pain begins.
This book is written by three healthcare providers who refuse to stay in
silos:
• A neuromuscular dentist
• A NUCCA chiropractor
• A massage therapist
All three reached the same conclusion from different directions:
You cannot fix chronic pain by treating only one part of the body.
My fifty years as a dentist, working on human beings, made me in awe
of the human body and all its miraculous strengths and weaknesses. As
I read the book for the first time, I could visualize and agree with the hip
as the foundation for a building. Any foundation that is twisted or
torqued is a sad beginning with a sad outcome over the years. As I read
more, I could see the need for the spine to be an integral part of the
body’s foundation. The name of the first two vertebrae, Atlas and Axis,
tells a very important fact; one holds the world, and the other lets it spin.
If they are not in perfect harmony, issues occur both up and down the
spine.
When thinking about how the bite is connected, I could visualize a truss,
the triangle of two joints and a bite, which helps stabilize the neck and
the hips. If a condyle is jammed backward, it shifts the bite, the triangle
becomes crooked, and the forces of the truss are no longer spread out
which forces the muscle to compensate by bracing. Just like a twisted
truss in a building, the load has to go somewhere, and something starts
to fail.
Real healing begins when the hip expert, the neck expert, and the bite
expert work together and not in silos. When alignment is restored from
the ground up, and a balanced bite is allowed to reinforce a balanced
body instead of fighting it, many pain patterns resolve that once seemed
mysterious including an “untreatable” condition called TMD.
This book is written for the patient who has been passed from office to
office with no clear answers. And it is written for the doctors who have
quietly felt there must be a better way, but were trained to stay in their
lane.
When silos soften, when respect replaces rivalry, and when different
hands work toward the same goal, the person in pain is no longer
caught in the middle, they finally become the center of care again.
That is the purpose of this book.
Dr. Mac Lee, DDS, FAGD, FICCMO
Author of Amazon books “TMJ Trifecta - Solving Your Pain Puzzle” and
“The Life Robbing Pain of TMD; Why Me?”
