The people who suffer chronically fits headache it's pretty in the modern era. The chronic headaches it's not always innocent symptoms, such as mistakenly think a lot of people. This may indicate a serious underlying disease such as brain cancer or other neoplasms, hypertension, diseases of the thyroid or pituitary disorders, infectious diseases, diseases of the παραρινίων, neurological diseases.
Chronic Headaches: A Syndrome Of Recurrent Headache
When in the detailed pathological control there is no organic lesion and episodes they are characterized by relapses in the long-lasting basis, then we may have the benign syndrome of recurrent headache, which despite the innocent nature, plagues a large portion of our fellow human beings. The crisis of headache it can be bilateral or unilateral, it appears as a migraine and to include or not the neck. The frequency of occurrence varies. Some show daily crises, some crises on a weekly or monthly basis, seizures that can last for hours or to awaken the sick during the night. These judgements may be accompanied by anorexia, nausea or vomiting, symptoms of the eyes, psychological events, difficulty concentrating, and numbness ("μυρμηκιάσματα").
A large part of chronic headaches, while they have a lot of common symptoms with the previous syndrome are of a different etiology and different treatment. Belong to the chronic headaches voltage (see below).
Chronic Headaches: Tension Headache
A large part of the chronic headacheswhile they have a lot of common symptoms with the syndrome of recurrent headache, is of another etiology and different treatment. Belong to the chronic headaches voltage.
These chronic headaches they experience symptoms such as:
- pain in the neck, the top of the head, the ears, the temples
- grip in the masticatory muscles,
- pains in the joints of the jaws
The dental examination will reveal damage to teeth, pain in one or more teeth, inflammation and wound closure, maybe even necrosis some tooth or breaking of.
The causes of these headaches can be one or combination of more of the following:
- stress
- bruxism (tightness-gnashing of teeth)
- Occlusion disharmony (malocclusions/orthodontic anomalies; tooth loss with delayed or absent replacement; overeruption of opposing teeth; improperly contoured restorations; etc.)
- Abuse or injury to the muscles used in chewing ( masseter muscle, temporalis, medial and lateral pterygoid muscles, buccinator muscles )
- Disorganization in occlusion
The treatment in these cases, with one of the following means:
- Dental instruments (see: Night guards, restoration of the occlusal)
- Psychological treatment (dealing with stress, relaxation). To avoid the stress and overwork. The mild exercise that includes special techniques of relaxation, and massage.
- Drug therapy (painkillers, muscle relaxants, tranquilizers). It is recommended to avoid consumption of coffee, tea, alcohol and products containing caffeine such as colas.
Idiopathic Orofacial Pain
The idiopathic orofacial pain, is chronic continuous painusually dull, with exacerbations and remissions, in the area of the face, mouth, jaws and teeth, without apparent pathological alteration of the tissue or other signs, to refer to other types of στοματοπροσωπικό pain. Ranked in the somatoform disordersas these have been fixed with the new psychiatric methods. Although the αιτιοπαθογένειά remains unclear, there are several indications that connected with the depression.
The diagnosis is difficultas we need to exclude all sources of inflicting pain from the tissues of the region and not only. It is treated by doctors of various specialties. The dentist must be able to diagnose idiopathic στοματοπροσωπικό pain, in order to avoid unnecessary dental or surgical procedures, which usually worsens the pain. A large proportion of patients responding to the interpretation of the problem, reassurance and simple analgesics. When the pain persists, the case should be re-evaluated. Antidepressant drugs under constant surveillance, and cognitive therapy are applied, with satisfactory results.
