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Migraines and the Jaw Joints

 

If you have chronic headaches, there could be many reasons, but one reason is often overlooked. Not many people think about headaches having a dental cause. Severe and chronic headaches are a principal symptom of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD).

Not every dentist includes the jaw joints in dental work. Only a trained neuromuscular dentist will look at your teeth and gums in light of your jaw joints along with their muscles and nerves, your bite, and your posture.

You can feel the jaw joints by placing a finger in front of one ear and opening your mouth. That is a ball-and-socket joint and the most flexible joint in the body. It can more in three dimensions:

· Forward and back

· Up and down

· Sideways

Have you ever counted the number of times you open your mouth in one day -- yawning, talking, biting and chewing, laughing? If the jaw joints are out of alignment, you are putting stress on the lower jaw and its muscles and nerves each time you move it. Over the years, this creates inflammation and chronic tension, as the jaw muscles keep trying to close the mouth correctly but failing.

When the jaw joints are out of alignment, so is your bite, and so probably are some of your teeth. It can also work the other way around: when your teeth are out of alignment, they throw your bite off, which puts the jaw joints out of alignment. These structures all work together and must be diagnosed and treated as a unit.

TMD Headaches

Several large nerves run through the face, head and neck, branching out repeatedly. When the jaw area is inflamed this can compress a nerve or several and cause pain. Depending on which part of which nerve is compressed, the pain can be in the head (often on one side only), the jaw, the ear, the neck, shoulder, or back.

TMD headaches are not migraines although they may well feel as if they are. They can be very severe and can last for several days each time. But they have a dental cause and migraines do not.

There are many TMD symptoms and most TMD sufferers have several of them, yet are unaware of having TMD. Most people are unaware that there is such a thing as TMD. Besides simple pain, some of the other symptoms are:

· Tooth grinding

· Jaw clenching

· Snoring

· Tooth sensitivity

· Dizziness

· Ringing in the ears

· Insomnia

· Limited jaw movement

· Worn or loose teeth

A neuromuscular dentist can diagnose and treat TMD. Some people go to a doctor for the “migraines” and receive a pain prescription. Of course pain relief is a blessing, but a painkiller is not treating the cause of the pain. It would also not help to just visit your local general dentist. Neuromuscular dentistry is not taught in dental school. A dentist must pursue specialized training to gain the knowledge and skill to diagnose and treat TMD.

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Contact Dr. Arthur Kwan for more information about TMD and TMJ, and what your treatment options are in the Las Vegas area.

Questions & Answers about Flexible Dental Chew

Chew toys for a dog that likes plastic?

My dog has a bunch of toys: plush squeakies, a flexible chicken-flavored and flexible blue dental Nylabone, a Kong, a rope toy, a buster cube. But her favorite thing to chew (aside from cardboard / paper) is plastic. Like hairbrushes and MP3 players and cell phones. It's getting a little expensive.

She's a light chewer, but she seems to a kick out of shredding things into pieces. She doesn't care for the Nylabones, doesn't care about the Kong unless there's food in it, and doesn't want to shred the plushes. I don't want to be constantly feeding her through toys, though, and I need the toy to keep her occupied more than 10 minutes. She loves rawhide bones, but I'm not sure I want to give them to her every day (and she tends to guard them).

I like the idea of Nylabone because they can last a while, but she's just not that interested. Are there any other non-food toys out there that will be more appealing to her than plastic and will last more than a few minutes?

try removing a label from a empty plastic bottle if you're dog is outside add water to make it more of a fun game for them.
then push a tiny bit of air out as you put the lid back on then give it to you're dog. they love the noise and get excited over it. if she loves plastic she will like it and it's safe as long as when the bottle is being destroyed you are with the dog to remove parts away from her like the lid when its removed or if she pulls bits off.
but when it starts to fall apart remove it so there are no health risks.
also most pet shops have a wide range of plastic dog safe toys,

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