Won teeth destroyed by cluster headache

Question:

I have since 1997 had cluster migraines, it will say it took some years before someone finds a way out huh I failed .. during the periods I have seizures, it is very violent, the pain is not it to keep going and you hammer head on the wall to get another pain .. I have so within the last 4-5 years started to crunch my teeth and may, in an attack pill teeth out with my finger .. I've got a lot of drugs and megt strong medicine when I have Hortons. it means now for me I have gone from being a much used as an accommodation girl to shut myself up in my apartment, I'm embarrassed and uncertain 't happy anymore. I got early retirement, and save me now it's starting to go out of my front teeth can 't eat normal food should not it be tough food, wish I could bite into an apple again ... What the do I do, can some help me? ??

Sincerely, Tina

Answer:

Dear Tina,

Your situation sounds not very nice. Dentists are well known for cluster headache, and has on occasions given rise to tooth extraction, where it is misdiagnosed as dental pain. This is typically the teeth of the upper jaw side region of the same side as the headache occurs. Some patients with Hortons, get pure oxygen in the bottle to help the pain.

I think you should contact your own dentist. Possibly. even contact one of the two dental schools in the country.

School of Dentistry in Aarhus
School of Dentistry in Copenhagen

Hope you can use my answer.

Sincerely

Dentist Joan Olsen

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Aarhus dismantles 70 percent of school dental clinics

The great shortage of dentists and the children improved dental health, will now Aarhus municipality to change the current structure of the dental field. School dental clinics is reduced by approx. 70 percent and dentists must gather in large clinics.

The city council of Aarhus municipality decided Wednesday night to bring together school dentists on 10-16 large clinics, rather than the current 43 smaller school clinics spread over the city's 49 elementary schools, Jyllands-Posten. At the schools in the future will be without dentist will instead be clinics with dental hygienists and dental assistants, who must provide preventive dental care.

The new structure of the dental field to be implemented over the next 10 years, and the reason is, besides that it's difficult to get dentists to the municipality that the children in Aarhus will have fewer and fewer holes.

The current structure dates back to the 1970s when a dentist only treated 400 children and adolescents, where they currently have to deal with around 1,500 children and adolescents. In the 1970s, had children and young people in Aarhus on average drilled in five teeth per year. Today, the average small 0.7 wells per year. The expectation is that in future only be needed for 30 dentists in municipal dental care in Aarhus.

The new developments in the dental field in Aarhus municipality is also a consequence of the increasing dental gap. And the trend is towards fewer and larger clinics where there are more dentists working in teams. Many young dentists prefer the fellowship they find on a clinic with several dentists.

Social Democrats and SF are skeptical about the structural changes
"We advocate the nomination, but we want an assurance that you place a part of future dental clinics, where they are needed. They should not be added after a spredekam, but where need is greatest, "said Steen B. Andersen (S), Jyllands-Posten. Steen was so worried about the new model that he also wanted an evaluation after the first year.

One of the biggest challenges in the new model of dental care field is the so-called socially disadvantaged groups who typically have more tooth decay than their peers. They must have a positive action in relation to which future large clinics should be located in the municipality.

Claus Thomas Mountain (SF), said to Jyllands-Posten that he is concerned that children in the future to spend time on transport to get to the dentist.

"Many parents have to take time off of work to get their children to the dentist. This may mean that they prefer dental treatment out until it fits with their work, "argued Thomas Claus Bjerg on.

SF suggested to soften up the change so that the larger units must be supplemented with four mobile dental units, which can run around to the clinics.

Gert Bjerregaard from the Liberal Party pointed out, like Social Democrat Steen B. Andersen, the clinics will be located in the areas of greatest need and that there also must be easily accessible by public transport in the areas.

"So we avoid that children spend too much time on transportation, and it takes time from teaching," said Gert Bjerregaard told Jyllands-Posten, and highlighted the main objective of the new structure is that dentists have to work in larger units of learning from each other and thus obtain experience.

Location and cost of the large clinics
We have not been named, what schools to house the new large clinics. But in Aarhus municipality report on the new structure is the following schools listed as bid on schools in the future to house the large clinics Møllevangsskolen, Vejlby School Lystrup School Tovshøjskolen, Kragelund School and Vestergård School.

The large dental clinics should have three to five dental team and the establishment costs of a single large clinic is expected to be around 8.5 million. The total cost for the new dental structure is expected to amount to 100 million. kr and an unknown amount of transportation of particularly vulnerable children.

The Danish dental phobia dentists stress

It is estimated that 10-20 percent of Danes are so afraid of the dentist that they have completely dropped the regular dental visits. And that about. 4 out of 10 adult Danes suffer from dental phobia to some degree.

Besides having important consequences for the individual, they have high levels of dental phobia also large societal consequences. It costs society dearly in sickness and in grants to expensive treatments that may be needed after years of neglect and lack of inspection by the dentist.

The fear of dentists affects all groups in society, and not only people with limited resources and profits. "There is a slight over-representation of unemployed, but all groups are affected, including managers and bank managers," said Rod Moore, a researcher at the University of Aarhus, Viborg Folkeblad.

The lack of correlation between educational level and frequency of dental phobia may be related to the cause of dental fear to be found in childhood.

Now dentists with fright
A group Aarhus dentists and psychologists have been awarded 190,000 DKK from Central Jutland to a project to cure dental phobia. One objective of the project is to gain a larger share of the population to go regularly to the dentist. And it is the practitioners who must become better at helping patients with dental fear.

"It is about meeting the patient on a human level. It is important that the dentist sits down and takes one conversation with the patient about this fear and listen to the experiences patients had with dentists. Experiences, which often causes dental fear. And so it is very important that the conversation is not happening in the dental chair, which the patient fears so much, because it is about creating trust, "said Rod Moore, who is project manager at the Research and Treatment Center dental phobia at the School of Dentistry in Aarhus.

"70 percent of people with dental phobia have had a traumatic experience at a dentist before the age of 12 years, and it creates problems for them today. But I hope the project will help a lot of them, "said Rod Moore on.

The dentists also been affected by dental fear
In the description of the project also provides that dentists can get stressful than having to deal with the resistance they encounter from the patient when they have to deal with anxious patients. It can be both mentally and physically exhausting and mean risk for poor treatment of the patient or symptoms of burnout among dentists.

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DDS, PhD, dr. odont. Rod Moore has, among other things in 2006 defended a doctoral thesis on dental fear and pain at Aarhus University with the title " Psychosocial Aspects of dental anxiety and clinical pain phenomena . " He has also been associated Aarhus Dental School for over 20 years, had been private dentist for 20 years and worked at two universities in the United States, including at Ohio State University, where he also obtained his master's degree. Rod Moore has a wide range of publications behind him and has lectured at several universities in both Europe and America.

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