Face Forward with Dr. Tim Betita: Answers about Oral and Facial Surgery
Is your jaw pain something nobody can figure out? Were you told you're not a candidate for implants and sent home with no real plan?
Dr. Tim Betita is a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon and physician who has treated thousands of TMJ and full arch dental implant patients across Southern California. He trained as both a dentist and a medical doctor, has performed thousands of jaw and implant surgeries, and now trains other surgeons in the procedures he pioneered.
On this podcast he breaks down what most doctors get wrong about jaw pain and tooth loss and shows you exactly what a real path forward looks like.
If you've been dismissed, misdiagnosed, or told to just live with it, you're in the right place.
New episodes every week.
Episodes
10 episodes
Most Dentists Tell Patients Over 70 They Can't Get Implants. They're Wrong.
📌 Learn more: https://dentalimplantsgps.com/If you are over 80 and someone told you that you cannot get dental implants, listen closely. That is not a medical verdict. It is often just a sign that a particular office did not have the tr...
If My Jaw Started Popping and Clicking, Here's Exactly What I'd Do First
📌 Learn more: https://dentalimplantsgps.com/If my jaw started clicking tomorrow, I know exactly what I would do first. Most people do nothing. They wait, they Google it, and they hope it goes away on its own. That is the mistake that tu...
Dentures vs. Full Arch Implants: I've Watched Both Play Out. Here's What I'd Choose
📌 Learn more: https://dentalimplantsgps.com/Dentures or full arch implants. I have placed both. I have watched both play out over years and decades in real patients. This is not a marketing comparison. This is what I actually see when p...
Diagnosed With TMJ? Watch This Before You Agree to Surgery
📌 Learn more: https://dentalimplantsgps.com/There's a question I hear from almost every woman who comes to see me after seeing two or three other providers first. It's not whether she needs surgery. It's why nobody could ever explain wh...
5 Signs Your Implants May Be Failing Right Now. Here Is How to Know. (And What to Do About It)
📌 Learn more: https://dentalimplantsgps.com/Something still feels off after your dental implants, and you are not imagining it. The problem is that most of these warning signs get explained away until they become something much harder t...
Braces Keep Getting Recommending for TMJ Problems. It Doesn't Work. Here's Why.
📌 Learn more: https://dentalimplantsgps.com/You spent months in braces. Maybe years. Your jaw still hurts. Clicking, headaches, pain radiating into your ear or temple.Someone told you fixing your bite would take pressure off you...
What Happens Inside Your Body When a Missing Tooth Goes Unreplaced
📌 Learn more: https://dentalimplantsgps.com/Most people who lose a tooth assume the hard part is over once it heals. The socket closes, the gums look fine, and life moves on.What almost nobody tells you is that the moment that t...
The Biggest Lie in Implant Surgery (And What To Do Instead)
📌 Learn more: https://dentalimplantsgps.com/Almost everything you've read about full arch dental implants tells you what you're getting. Almost nothing tells you what you're losing. And what you're losing is something that cannot be ful...
You Don't Have TMJ. You Have One of These Two Things Instead
📌 Learn more: https://dentalimplantsgps.com/Most TMJ diagnoses are technically wrong. Not because your pain isn't real, but because "TMJ" is just the name of the joint. It tells you where the pain is, not what is actually causing it. Tw...
I'm an Oral Surgeon. Surgery Is Almost Never My First Answer
📌 Schedule a consultation: https://www.niguelcoastoralsurgery.com/contact-our-oral-surgeons-dana-point-ca/I am a dentist, a physician, and a surgeon. I trained for over a decade to operate on patients with the most severe cases. And I'm...