“Dental Health Could Be A Reason”
Though headaches are very common in different age groups of people and there are people who suffer from mild to severe head pains. But did you know that sometimes the frequent or even constant headaches can be effectively treated by your dentist instead of GP (general practitioner)? Yes! That’s true. If you’ve migraine then you must be finding its solution through many ways and of course, you need to treat it as early as possible. Many people remain unaware of the fact that the cause of migraine in their head might be residing in their mouth and jaws.
In this blog, we will define how your oral health could be one of the major reasons for your headache.
Since frequent headaches can ruin your quality of life and this painful experience can result in some really bad days. Here you need a dentist and not a gp, after all, this type of headache has been given a so-called name as “dental headache.”
What can provoke a dental headache?
Most of the times dental headaches are determined as the tension headaches, which is due to the muscle tension which forms in the region of face and jaw. Frequently, this muscular tension is a symptom of malocclusion or a bad bite.
The bad bite can be through many reasons, previous dental treatment, orthodontics, and a growing wisdom tooth. When you have a bad bite, it means that your teeth surface while chewing doesn’t properly aligns together to form a proper bite when the jaw is shut. This non-alignment between the upper and the lower teeth often leads to the pain in the jaws which radiates to your head.
Understanding referred pain
Diagnosing this type of headache becomes really challenging because of the complex nerve system in this region of the body, where the pain is often referred from the place of its origin and spread over other regions throughout the skull. Patients experiencing this kind of pain may unwittingly maneuver the doctor from diagnosing it properly.
So, in case of referred pain, you may experience discomfort in the temple region of your head. For instance, the exact origin of the pain may be in the muscular region surrounding the jaw and lead to improper bite.
Tmj and bruxism
The two other dental problems we see that can be causes of your frequent or constant headache are tmj (temporomandibular joint disorder) or teeth grinding (bruxism).
TMJ
Let’s talk about tmj first; it is defined as the pain and the compromised movement of the jaw joint and its surrounding muscle. Anything from sports trauma to wrong bite or the over-stretching of the jaw muscles can result into it.
Bruxism
At last but not the least, bruxism as it is another cause of frequent headaches and can lead to discomfort and pain. Where grinding your teeth for hours long can be like a tremendous workout without rest and you fall into a trouble. So whenever you feel a frequent headache that might disappear a while later after rising, can be due to teeth grinding.
So, this was all about the connection between your headache and your dental health. For more details, talk to the specialists at +91-9818955508.
