We specialize in treating chewing pain, jaw pain, restricted opening, atypical earache, atypical toothache, destructive grinding/clenching, open locking, burning mouth, sudden bite changes, failed implants- crowns-root canals-retainers-appliances, and dysfunctions of the chewing system.

Dr. Yount 3 year residency was at the University of Florida's Parker Mahan Pain Center. He is board certified in Orofacial Pain through the American Board of Orofacial Pain. Dr. Yount is one of 4 Orofacial Pain Specialist in North Carolina.

The team provides the latest science of Chewing System Orthopedics. The team is diversified: Physical Therapist, Biofeedback, Orthopedist, Patient. The team cares, listens, communicate, teach, empathize, follow up, implements all tools need for healing jaw joint system. With all of this support, it is you, the patient, that is the most important part of the team.

Phyllis is grew up in one finest medical families from West Jefferson. Her training was in xray technology trained at UNC. She has business/marketing degree ASU. Her beauty is in her heart, one most loving people I have ever met.

Amy great skills come from many years in dental profession. She has work in an array of dental positions. An let me tell you how big her heart is, wow. She is short of stature but big of heart. She loves people.

Let me invite you to join the loving team at RFPC: 1) Field of study: any medical, dental, or specialty profession 2) Heart bigger than outdoors 3) Retiring or retired 4) Wanting to work 20 to 25 hrs per week 5) Desire to improve quality of life

So, do you feel anyone else has training & experience necessary to manage TMD, Tension HA, Restricted Opening, Osteoarthritis TMJ, Open Locks, Dual Bites, TMJ Trauma, by themselves? You are right not even OROFACIAL PAIN SPECIALIST.

The dentist or PCP refer complex chronic pain cases due complexity joint, complexity disease, & complexity pain, but the psychosocial issues demand the referral to OROFACIAL PAIN SPECIALIST even more than complexity.

How many dentist have studied anxiety, PTSD, abuse, emotional hyjacking, ADHD, panic attacks, and other mood disorders ? They are trained to practice on teeth, not muscle joint complexes or high anxiety-PTDS-emotional hyjacking-panic attacks. As a dentist, you want to try and treat such a problem.

There is no doctor that can mange chronic pain by him/her self. It takes a team of professional that look at chronic pain from their specialty point of view. The basic team consist of patient, physical therapy, biofeedback, and chewing system orthopedics. It requires communication across lines of medicine and dentistry that insurance will not reimburse. So you have complex case requiting communication and coordination of team and no financial support from the very industry that supports health care expenses.

I have studied anxiety my whole life having grown up as anxious kid. Going into chronic pain, it was quite evident that pain and anxiety have a relationship. So, being avid reader in world of psychology, I come at chronic pain from a diverse background. Even the psychology of health habits, is a whole area of study. I call it practical psychology, based on a lot science and practical experiences. I have labels the levels of anxiety: stress, anxiety, emotional hyjacking, and PTSD. Amazing how our emotional brain programming from childhood so affects our ability to manage chronic pain, relationships, and happiness.

Formula Chronic Pain: 1) PAINS: Acute pain training focuses on structural damage one area. Chronic pain focus on many different pains. 2) ANXIETY: Medical community pushes medications for anxiety states instead of pushing Integrative tools to manage sources of anxiety. 3) TRAUMA: accumulative damage from multiple traumas due poor health habits 4) Health Habits: these establish the ability of body to heal from traumas and the daily damage to body.