Written By Kira Zwolinski
No pills. No shots. No surgery. No side effects. Now there is an FDA-approved dental appliance for the prevention of migraine pain to help reduce the frequency and intensity of migraine pain episodes. The Nociceptive Trigeminal Inhibition Tension Suppression System (NTI-tss®) is a major breakthrough for painful, aching jaws, sore, sensitive teeth, stiff neck, tension headaches, or morning headaches. The NTI-tss® device has been used successfully with thousands of patients in the United States and many other countries. It has received marketing allowance from the FDA and complies with all requirements as an approved dental device.
It starts as a sleep disorder of intense jaw clenching. It’s perfectly normal to clench your jaws when you sleep. We all do from time to time – even during normal sleep cycles. But what happens when you clench your jaw muscles 14 times more intensely than normal? Migraine pain… chronic headache… and TMJ pain. That’s what happens. What can you do to help alleviate this? In one office visit we can create a custom-made NTI-tss® device. The tiny, clear-plastic device fits over your top two front teeth. It makes clenching virtually impossible. In a few days or weeks, your clenching reflex is suppressed. Morning headache pain, neck pain, sore jaw, and other related pain associated with involuntary intense clenching usually begins to resolve and disappear.
The difference between the NTI-tss® device and the traditional dental nightguard device or TMJ splint is that the traditional flat-plane splints and nightguard devices provide a surface for you to “bite down on”. This custom-fitting device prevents the tooth surfaces from ever coming into intense contact. High-intensity clenching has recently been found to be a real cause of the problem. With the NTI-tss® device, we can begin to solve the real problem: actually preventing your back teeth from clenching intensely and coming into contact with each other. Stop intense clenching, stop the source of the pain!
Can clenching your teeth really cause all these problems? Yes! Clenching your teeth while asleep and during the day is the result of some of the strongest muscles in your body tensing up (up to 6 to 20 times more intensely than nonsufferers), which can cause morning and tension headaches, and even damage surrounding joints, teeth, and other muscles. These muscles – called the temporalis muscles – are located on the sides of your head and are used when you chew or close your mouth. When you clench your teeth, these muscles can create a great deal of stress and tension: to your jaw joints, to your neck muscles, and to your teeth.
The NTI-tss® device suppresses the clenching reflex by preventing the posterior teeth from contacting each other, thereby eliminating teeth-grinding altogether. There is no surface to bite down on or bite into. The temporalis muscles are kept from contracting with their usually intensity. The clenching reflex is suppressed and almost eliminated. The NTI-tss® device helps to keep it from happening.
By reducing the intensity of involuntary clenching at night while you’re asleep (and even during the day if stress triggers unconscious involuntary clenching at work, home, or on the road), the NTI-tss® device minimizes clenching intensity and, in time, minimizes intense clenching as the source of your pain.
The NTI-tss® device may eliminate the need for prescription and over-the-counter pain medications that you take for morning headache, sore neck, sore jaw, and related pain associated with involuntary clenching of the teeth. Because the NTI-tss® device helps reduce the intensity of your clenching, it helps maximize your comfort and should minimize your need for medications. You may find that you’re more productive and that you can do more throughout the day because you’re pain free and more comfortable with less tension and stress.
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