Dennis Mihalka D.D.S. - Life Smile

Headache Relief

If you suffer from headaches, or even migraines,
there is a high chance that they are the result of teeth clenching.

Twenty-three million Americans suffer from severe migraine pain… so you are not alone. Many more folks, ranging from children to seniors, suffer from headaches.

A dentist who suffered through migraine headaches for many years designed this unique device, the NTI. The FDA confirmed that 82% of migraine and headache sufferers who use that device experienced an average of 77% reduction in migraine pain attacks within two months. And that's without medications or any other treatment!

To understand his product it is best to understand the underlying cause of many headaches, including migraines. For a thorough discussion of headaches and their cause, review www.nti-tss.com, or see below:

To summarize the NTI web site information:

• The essential cause for severe headache/migraine pain is the powerful muscles that close the jaw and teeth into a clenching mode. The force exerted between the teeth can be as high as 300 pounds per square inch.
• No wonder many teeth fracture and break!
• To counter this powerful force, the neck muscles must also equally contract to balance the jaw muscles, because both these sets of muscles maintain the head in an upright position.
• Typically, the muscles most affected are those in the temple areas--extending from behind the ears to just above the eyes.
• In addition, cheek muscles are in contraction.

Either of these muscles can be felt. Muscles become firm or hard with exercise. If you're "clencher" places your fingers on the outside of your cheeks about where the back teeth are located and clench your teeth together, you will feel a hard lump that feels more like bone than muscle. To confirm that this hard mass is a muscle, continue contacting the area and open your mouth. You will feel this hard mass disappear. If it were bone, the mass would remain hard.

• This muscle strain applies pressures all around the head and masks symptoms, such as migraines, head and neck aches…. and sometimes as sinus headaches.

So, how does this device work?

• Like a nutcracker crushing a very hard nut, there is greatly magnified power in the area closest to the joint. To reduce this powerful and destructive clenching, the force is transferred to the very front teeth, thus reducing the forces of clenching to a small fraction of the back teeth.
• This is accomplished by creating a small, custom-fitted device that snaps into place over the two upper or lower front teeth. This prevents clenching, wear and fracture of all the teeth.

Most folks stop clenching while wearing the device. A few continue to clench and grind. However, now all the wear and tear is on the device…much cheaper to replace than numerous crowns.

There are some contraindications that can only be addressed by the sufferer visiting a dental professional experienced in the use and application of the NTI.

The devise is easily fit at the dentist’s office. It involves no surgery and has no risk of side effects…compared to pharmaceutical migraine treatments.

The NTI has been approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a device not merely to minimize migraine pain, but to actually prevent it!

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