Dentists, sleep and headaches
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You have headaches? Morning headaches? Do you feel refreshed in the morning, or exhausted? Have you ever thought about seeing your dentist?
More and more dentists are noticing the link between these three things – sleep, headaches and dentistry. Organizations can be found on the net that take the connection seriously. Take for example the Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.
Of course, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Sleep issues, such as sleep apnea, have been linked to diseases such as cluster. Migraineurs have found relief with dental devices such as NTI-tss, which doesn’t allow you to tense migraine-triggering muscles while you sleep.
Some dentists are being told: if your patient is falling asleep in the dentist chair, that may be a clue that there are sleep problems involved. Your dentist may even give you an initial screening for sleeping problems, before sending you to a sleep specialist.
There are several devices and treatments that a dentist can do to help you with sleep problems, headaches, cluster and migraine. If you’ve been avoiding your dentist, maybe it’s time you made an appointment and talked about more than just your teeth.
29 March 2012 @ 9:28 pm
Great article, more dentists awareness is required. Keep up the good work.
30 March 2012 @ 1:27 am
Great article, would be great to get more dentists to read this blog.
28 February 2020 @ 3:59 pm
Yes, of course. Migraine is connected to every part of the body in some way or another…. at least with me they are. If it affects my body in any way, shape, form and/or function, it also affects my migraines.
Since age 4yrs, I have dealt with these. In two days, I’ll be 68yrs. They run in both sides of my families. On my mother’s side, with both of her parents having them, her and all three of her siblings, to my father’s family, his mother and father and his siblings. My sister and I both have them, all four of my adult children, and now my oldest grandchild (10 yrs) and both of my sister’s adult children have them. I’m just waiting to see if my two toddler granddaughters will have them as well.
Somehow, its’ insidious roots have effected every physical condition I have, and it is slowly winning no matter how hard I fight… But I WILL FIGHT to the end!!!