Re: A Migraine Treatment Patients Can Really Sink Their Teeth Into
- From: "Amatus Cremona" <Nicola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:55:43 GMT
Tim,
I don't believe I have that one in my collection. Could you send me a copy
?
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Amatus
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"Tim Dixon" <timgdixon-no-spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Mark & Steven Bornfeld" <bornfeldmung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Mark & Steven Bornfeld wrote:
>>
>>> Tim Dixon wrote:
>>>
>>>> From Practical Neorlogy, October 2005
>>>>
>>>> By Andrew Blumenfeld, MD and James Boyd, DDS
>>>>
>>>> Conventional pharmacotherapies for migraine headache can have
>>>> undesirable systemic side effects, and medications currently accepted
>>>> for prophylactic treatment (e.g., propranolol, amitriptyline,
>>>> verapamil) rarely have a better than 55 percent efficacy. Furthermore,
>>>> the potential teratogenic effects of some migraine prophylactic agents
>>>> (e.g., divalproic sodium) make birth control a necessity in women of
>>>> childbearing age. Along with these shortcomings, compliance becomes an
>>>> issue; frequently, transformation to chronic daily headache occurs.
>>>>
>>>> A new non-pharmacologic method for prophylactic treatment of medically
>>>> diagnosed migraine pain as well as tension-type headaches, called the
>>>> Nociceptive Trigeminal Inhibition Tension Suppression System, is an
>>>> intra-oral device that reduces trigeminally-mediated muscular activity
>>>> and the resultant noxious afferent input. In patients with migraine and
>>>> tension-type headache, pericranial muscle tenderness (specifically of
>>>> the temporalis) is a common complaint, frequently detectable upon
>>>> palpation. Intraoral devices have been used to protect teeth from the
>>>> intense hyperactivity of the trigeminally-innervated muscles of
>>>> mastication, primarily the temporalis and masseter muscles.
>>>>
>>>> These devices have no systemic effects and are thus safe in pregnancy,
>>>> lactation and in elderly patients on multiple other medications. There
>>>> are two types of intraoral devices now currently available: the
>>>> traditional full-occlusal splints and dis-occlusion splints. The
>>>> full-occlusal splint covers all of the teeth. Such splints still allow
>>>> hyperactivity to perpetuate or intensity for as least 50 percent of
>>>> patients by providing the necessary resistance to clench on. A
>>>> dis-occlusion splint allows only reciprocating anterior incisor
>>>> contacts, thereby inhibition trigeminally -innervated pericranial
>>>> muscular contraction (most notably, of the temporalis) to less than a
>>>> third of maximum.
>>>>
>>>> Nocturnal trigeminal motor hyperactivity and the resultant noxious
>>>> afferent input can be interrupted by a dis-occlusion splint such as the
>>>> NTI and allows the practitioner to give his patient a
>>>> non-pharmaceutical option for migraine prevention. The NTI device is
>>>> essentially a prefabricated matrix which a dentist custom fits to the
>>>> patient. When used during times of muscular parafunction (i.e., during
>>>> nocturnal jaw clenching, a common trait of migraineurs) the NTI device
>>>> has been shown to reduce migraine events by 77 percent in 82 percent of
>>>> subjects.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Best to you and yours, Stovie--keep that pipe warm!!
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>> Sorry Tim--I replied to the wrong post!
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> Steve
>
> Thats ok Steve, i'll keep my pipe warm too.
>
> For those of you who are NTI providers that might be interested, I will be
> happy to provide you with a DVD I produce of Dr. Blumenfeld, free of
> charge if you send me your postal mailing instructions to my private
> e-mail. (just take out the nospam stuff).
>
> The DVD runs one hour in duration and Dr. Blumenfeld will walk you through
> the medical world of medically diagnosed migraine using the FDA approved
> NTI for the prevention of migraine. He will show you how to make the
> diagnosis, the kinds of treatments currently available, and how the NTI
> fits into that model. He also covers marketing of the NTI to
> Neurologists.
>
> This DVD footage was filmed by me during the May 2005, ABC's of TMD's, put
> on by Dr. Boyd and Dr. Glassman and sponsored by Keller Labs and is
> usually only available to attendees of those courses. However, feeling
> generous and because I think highly of all of you I have decided I will
> offer you this so that perhaps it may enhance your practice and open your
> eyes and mind to the world of neorolgy.
>
> Dr. Boyd currently practices with Andrew Blumenfeld, MD, (a neurologist
> specializing in migraine) at The Headache Center, part of the Neurology
> Center at the Scripps Hospital campus in Encinitas, California and
> lectures throughout the U.S. and internationally.
>
> Dr Blumenfeld is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the
> American Headache Society. He has published widely in areas of headache
> and has been an active researcher in headache and multiple sclerosis. He
> has wide experience in botulinum toxin therapy, and is director of the
> Headache Center of Southern California
>
>
>
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