Bill HangDental Practitioner, Lecturer at OrthO2Health

Are Headaches Stopping You From Really Living?

30 Nov 2021 · 1 min

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In this segment, the presenter outlines a straightforward dental/occlusal treatment for a patient suffering from severe migraines, TMJ pain, and chronic facial/neck muscle tenderness linked to a clenching habit. The approach involves extracting a problematic bicuspid, creating bilateral intra‑oral spaces, and then stabilizing those spaces with composite resin. The speaker claims that this simple intervention eliminated the patient’s pain, allowing her to resume high‑intensity activity, exemplified by her running half‑marathons. The narrative emphasizes the ease of the procedure and its dramatic impact on quality of life.

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It's really quite simple. We're going to talk about this later today or tomorrow. How else can you help somebody like this? She's had one bicuspid taken out. She's got a severe migraine pattern. TMJs and all her facial and neck muscles are tender all the time. Admits a severe clenching pattern. You can— now we open up a space here and here on both sides. Open that space up and leave it there for her. And now she's pretty happy with that. So happy, she thinks it's a good thing. We have the spaces bonded closed here with some composite resin to close them up to help give it some stability. And now she's goodbye to pain and hello to running half marathons. She feels great. It's as simple as doing that.