Got Head And Neck Pain? Want Expert Help? Bald Hills Dental

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Dr Lin (Dentist) is one of Australia leading experts in the fields of breathing and sleep, head, neck and TMJ pain, and orthopaedics.

Head, Neck & TMJ Pain
Muscle tension is a very common cause of headaches. In fact, approximately 90% of headaches occur because of it. Known as Bruxism, adults will involuntarily clench and grind their teeth throughout the night and is a primary cause of headaches, Neck & Jaw pain. The muscles are interrelated and is why there is a strong connection. Quite often, dental orthotics that make small changes to the jaw and the bite could just be enough to reduce and even alleviate the pain. However, we often see that a common cause of grinding is an airway, sleep or bit problem which may need to be addressed.

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Diagnosis Of Head, Neck And TMJ Pain?
TMJ is not always the root cause of all head and neck pain. We will always recommend a through examination with our dentists to assess your history, conduct a cranial exam (3D CBCT scan), postural exam, oral exam, occlusal analysis, muscle palpations and ne

urological exam. If a sleeping disorder ...
... is identified by our doctors then we will conduct a full sleep study to asses whether it is contributing rot your head, neck and TMJ pain.

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How We Treat Your Head, Neck And TMJ Pain
Orthontics therapy is a very common treatment option to achieving your ideal bite. This includes day and night time splints. If we identify a nasal obstruction through the CBCT then we may decide to suggest a referral to an ENT. Other treatments that may help alleviate the pain are: dry needling, trigger point injections, laser and autologous blood concentrates (stem cells/concentrated growth factors). We will design the splints to be tailored to you so that you can get full use of your jaw function, breathing and decompression to allow your jaw joint to heal. It is a similar process to healing a fractured jaw. A lot of our patients report relief of pain after only a few days, however treatment time can be as long as 12 months.

Dealing with the pain on a day-to-day basis is not necessary. You do not have to put up with it. We will always recommend following our post treatment management instructions to ensure that pain from Head, Neck & TMJ pain does not return.