tooth pain

I have heard horror stories about people having teeth removed because they were painful. But the problem is that the teeth were innocent!

After the tooth or teeth were pulled, the people still had tooth pain. The teeth were removed but the original cause of the pain wasn’t treated.

There is a strap-like muscle that attaches your lower jaw to your upper jaw. It allows you to chew and clench your teeth. It is called the massater. There is one on each side of your face.

When the massater develops trigger points (hyper-irritable areas of muscle that cause pain) it feels like the pain is in your teeth!

If you have pain on the top and bottom teeth on one whole side of your mouth there is a very good chance that the massater muscle is to blame.

Here’s the treatment:

Place your thumb on the Continue reading “Pain In Your Jaw And Teeth Can Be Caused By Muscles”

Have you ever heard of someone having a tooth pulled because they had pain in the tooth? But afterward they still had the pain? I have. Here’s how:

There are muscles in your head that can actually cause you to feel pain in your teeth. The pain is not IN your tooth but that is where you feel it. Removing the tooth doesn’t get rid of the pain because that wasn’t the cause of the pain to start with.

The muscles in your head can get “tight” and ornery just like any other muscles. They can develop trigger points. Trigger points are areas in muscles that “fire” or cause pain at some distance.

The muscles at the sides of your head–your temples–can Continue reading “Tooth Ache–Is It Really Pain In Your Tooth”