What would you do on a day that you didn’t have a headache or a migraine – and you knew that nothing you did on that day could cause a headache or migraine? Really — what would you do?? Would you be the real you – the person you really want to be? More that half of all head, neck, and facial pain is referred pain from muscles caused by an unbalanced bite when the teeth don’t come together correctly. Our new diagnostic exam can accurately determine if the cause of the pain is an unbalanced dental bite and if our dentomandibular rehabilitation treatment can relieve your pain. Regardless of how many professionals you have seen, how many medications you have been on, how many treatments you have been through, and what you have been told, in about than 60 minutes you will know if dentomandibular rehabilitation can help stop the pain with no drugs, no needles, and no surgery.

How can your unbalanced bite cause headaches? Your body wants to be in 100% balance, and when the teeth do not come together correctly, your muscles keep trying to reposition the lower jaw so that the teeth come together correctly. This causes muscle strain which over long periods of time forms lactic acid, trigger points, and scar tissue in the muscle. This then refers pain to other areas of the head, neck, and even teeth.

Every time you swallow, your upper and lower teeth try to come together in a firm and balanced way to brace the lower jaw against the skull. So if your bite is unbalanced from poorly aligned teeth, a missing tooth, or an accident (whiplash), the muscles must work harder to try to bring the teeth together properly. Your muscles never get a break; you swallow over 2,000 times a day! The overworked muscles become strained and eventually become painful, develop trigger points and scar tissue, and refer pain which can be experienced as headache, migraine, face or shoulder pain, toothache, dizziness, or even anxiety.

Your head, which weighs about 11 pounds, is balanced on top of your spine by muscles in your jaw, neck, shoulders, and back. This is like a softball balanced on top of a pencil by several rubber bands. Imagine one of those rubber bands being shortened; this would cause some of the other rubber bands to stretch and the softball would be thrown off center! Similarly, when even a single muscle in the jaw, neck, or face becomes shortened, all of the other muscles are forced to overwork to try to get the head balanced back on top of the spine.

So you can see then that headaches can originate from an unstable bite which cause the muscles to overwork, become stressed, form lactic acid, trigger points, and scar tissue, and become painful. And this can refer pain to other areas resulting in headaches, etc.

Our exam will determine if your headaches are caused by an unbalanced bite, and if so, our treatment will involve (1) eliminating trigger points and scar tissue in the muscles and (2) correcting your bite. This is called advanced forced balanced dentistry and neuromuscular rehabilitation.

Heartfelt Headache Relief in Coeur d’Alene offers the most recent advancements in force balanced dentistry for the reduction and elimination of headache and migraine pain as well as vertigo (dizziness) through dentomandibular rehabilitation. If you are suffering, find out if it is from an unbalanced bite. The diagnostic examination is focused on revealing the root cause of the pain, and the treatment targets those root causes without drugs, needles, or invasive surgical procedures.

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Dr. Donald Johnson founded Heartfelt Headache Relief in Coeur d’Alene to help patients stop their pain and live free with no limits! His office is at 114 W. Neider Ave., near Costco. The website for more information is www.HeartfeltHeadacheRelief.com and the office phone is (208) 667-4551. Schedule an appointment today!