TMJ HEADACHES

About 45 million North Americans suffer from headaches each year making it the most common medical complaint. Patients seeking to discover the reason for the headaches or a way of stopping them often face frustrating rounds of visits to various specialists without finding relief. One common cause of headaches that many people don’t know about is a problem with the tempomandibular joint, your jaw joint.
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Migraines or frequent, continual headaches may be a sign of temporomandibular joint dysfunction or TMJ. The temporomandibular joint (jaw joint) is one of the most complex in the human body. Common causes of TMJ pain include accidents, bruxism (grinding teeth at night) or a bad bite (malocclusion).
Malocclusion can occur for many reasons. Teeth may not fit together properly because of old, broken dental work, misaligned teeth or missing teeth. A dentist who has specialized training in the field of neuromuscular dentistry has the ability to correct the improper bite and relieve stress on the temporomandibular joint, allowing the muscles surrounding the joint to relax. This relieves the recurring headaches and the neck and shoulder pain that often accompany them.