Dental Monthly
FEBRUARY 2025 edition #43
Headache Again?! Maybe you should see the Dentist.
Did you know that there are over 200 different kinds of headaches?
For example there is a stress related headache, cluster-headache, migraine, (God forbid) Covid-related headache, and so many more.
But your headache is un-identified. You don’t know where it comes from.
Could your mouth be the source of this ailment? Let’s find out together.
Your jaws collide together through your teeth thousands and thousands of times a day, while talking chewing, swallowing, yawning, kissing even, and during these interactions we are able to distinguish a tiny little hair with our teeth, but also crunch bones and other hard stuff, which I certainly do not recommend!
In fact, with the muscles in your cheeks you can exert a force of up to a 100 kilograms per square millimeters. And that is fine with me, because our teeth are made for that. Enamel is the hardest tissue in our body.
But what if this interdigitation, this colliding together of the teeth, does not run smoothly? Say there is a primary stop before the jaws close completely. As if there were an obstacle before the jaw glides to its maximum occlusion.
For example:
There is a tooth that touches before all the other teeth, which is called occlusal trauma. This tooth being too high (long), supports alone the first very strong impact of jaw closure. In your head it feels or revertabrates like tripping or banging of your jaw.
Sometimes also the important articulation that allows the jaw to move, joins in making noise. With a clicking sound near your ear, caused by the left and right sliding of the jaw.
So you have tripping, banging and clicking near your ear and this is going on for thousands and thousands times a day in your head….?!?
YES… that is where your headache comes from!!
And not only… also your neck, your shoulders and your back may suffer from this problem.
So if you have an un-identified headache, go to the Dentist.
In my Dental Clinic Studio Moll we have successfully resolved many cases of very severe headaches.
Our treatments:
1/ Corrections of the teeth occlusion with prothesis and assessments of the jaws articulation will do in simple cases.
2/Orthodontic treatment with Invisalign. The transparent trays that create a space of 1.5mm between upper and lower teeth surfaces preventing the teeth from touching and exerting the excessive traumatic forces that cause headaches and other ailments. BY creating the right relationship between the upper and lower jaws and moving the teeth gently in the correct position we not only resolve a malocclusions like a deep bite, cross-bite, open-bite, but we also resolve bruxism and most of all the headaches disappear.
3/BOTOX treatment for pure bruxist patients who clench and grind with their Arnold-Schwarzenegger-cheek-muscles as if there is no tomorrow. With 3 little shots you relax the muscles resulting in joint-pain relief and the headaches disappear too.
Do reach out to me at one of the WIN-meetings or call for an appointment in Studio Moll at 055-755347
For more information, see these other Dental Monthly articles:
I don’t want to look like Madonna anymore
Why have my straighthened teeth turned crowded again?
If you have any questions, do reach out to STUDIO MOLL DENTAL CLINIC (contact details below) or reach out to Elena Moll during the WIN meetings.
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By Dr. Elena Speranza Moll
Studio Moll
Via Amilcare Ponchielli 21B, 50018 Scandicci –Firenze
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