Re: Is It My Sinuses Or Teeth?



An NTI is one thing that you can recommend without actually seeing
a patient. It is non-invasive and completely reversible.

Clenching is almost always a major component with these symptoms. It
may not be the only problem, but I have seen many similar cases
where adding an NTI helped a great deal.

The NTI helps calm everything down where it is easier to diagnose
and treat the rest of the teeth. That lets you find out if any
teeth are really cracked or just sore from the extreme abuse being
placed upon them. You don't want to start crowning, re-treating
endo, or extracting teeth if they don't really need it.

Talk to these patients and they often tell of having a painful
tooth that was filled, then crowned, then endo'd, and sometimes
even extracted. Calm down the clenching, and there may be a lot
less dental work indicated.

An NTI may not eliminate all of the pain either, but if you can turn
a 10 into a 4-6, that is still worth it.

JMO,
Steve


Chronic clenching often leaves signs that will point treatment
in a certain direction (such as NTI) but I wouldn't recommend that without seeing you. There are just too many possibilities at this point.

Steve

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