Headaches, facial pain, a clicking jaw, pain running into the neck and shoulders — often blamed on teeth, often not caused by them.
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TMJ and orofacial pain covers headaches, facial pain, a clicking jaw and pain running into the neck and shoulders. It often imitates toothache — which is why treating the tooth changes nothing, and why it goes undiagnosed for years.
Orofacial and craniofacial pain is the field of dentistry dealing with the diagnosis and care of non-dental pain presenting in the head, face, neck or inside the mouth. Each of these disorders has its own causes and treatments.
People with persistent headaches or migraines, or pain in the teeth, mouth, face, neck and shoulders, frequently go to their dentist first because it feels like a toothache. Dental pain is one type of orofacial pain and is treated with dental procedures — but orofacial pain can equally be caused by non-dental disorders such as TMD that imitate pain in the teeth, mouth or face. Treating the tooth in that case fixes nothing.
Pain in the teeth, face and head can originate from causes people never suspect: rhinosinusitis, mouth breathing, sleep disorders, obstructive sleep apnoea, tongue tie, clenching, and TMJ disorders. These also affect the muscles used to chew, swallow and talk.
Patients with TMJ problems usually have fatigued, spasming facial muscles resulting from trauma, stress, clenching, an inability to find a proper bite, incorrect swallowing or breathing dysfunction. To let you chew and close your mouth properly, the jaw muscles work overtime keeping head posture in balance. When they fatigue, the pain travels — down the neck, into the shoulders and back, and in severe cases down the arms.
Because it is treated as several separate problems by several different people. The headaches go to one doctor, the neck to another, the toothache to a third. Diagnosing it as one problem is the point of this consultation.
Yes. Fatigued, spasming jaw muscles send pain down the neck, into the shoulders and back, and in severe cases down the arms.
Orofacial pain from non-dental disorders such as TMD can imitate pain in the teeth, mouth or face. Treating the tooth in that case fixes nothing.
Trauma, stress, clenching, an inability to find a proper bite, incorrect swallowing or breathing dysfunction — and causes people rarely suspect, such as rhinosinusitis, mouth breathing, sleep disorders, obstructive sleep apnoea and tongue tie.
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