question: I am having terrible pain/swelling in my face. Mostly around my left ear, jaw and neck but it is now my right side that is hurting too and it is quickly becomming unbearable. My dentist has told me I have a bad jaw alignment and that is the reasoning. To cut to the chase here, I am wondering if there are other ways of dealing with this other than surgery. Hopefully something less painful, and less expensive (I am not exactly financially stable, so I have been sucking it up, but soon realized that is pointless now that I am missing work due to the pain.) Thank you for your time, Dalton.