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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Glidewell has always focused on providing dental clinicians with superior solutions for patient care. Now, the largest dental lab in the country can also supply dentists with two devices proven effective at relieving their patients tension headaches and migraines: the NTI-tss Plus
® and the NTI OmniSplint
®.
NTI-tss Plus? and NTI OmniSplint? Now Available from Glidewell
By adding this new clinical opportunity to its family of preventive care products, Glidewell has made it easier than ever for dental clinicians to help the 30 million people in the U.S. who suffer from migraines.
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Getty As a neurologist specializing in headaches, I see patients with chronic migraines–a serious and debilitating disease which can cause moderate to severe disability. According to the Migraine Research Foundation, approximately 2% of people in the United States suffer with chronic migraines. Chronic migraine is defined as headaches that occur on more than 15 days each month. Some people suffer from migraine headaches continuously all day long, every day of the month. Migraine is a neurological disease. It is important to understand that chronic migraines are physiological, not psychological. They are related to how your body functions and not caused by problems with your mind. Most importantly, migraine is more than a bad headache. It is a collection of neurological symptoms that can include headache, changes in vision, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light, sound, touch and smell.
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It’s highly likely that you or someone you know has migraine. Close to 1 in 4 households in the United States includes someone with migraine, according to the Migraine Research Foundation.
If you’re the one with migraine, particularly if you’re newly diagnosed, it’s likely many of the terms your doctor uses to describe the symptoms of migraine and what causes them are unfamiliar to you that is, unless you enjoy reading medical dictionaries in your free time!
If you don’t understand something that your doctor or pharmacist tells you about your migraine disease or treatments for it, it’s important to ask questions or ask for clarification. Likewise, if you read or hear something about migraine that you want to know more about, write it down, and ask your care provider the next time you see them.
Early puberty in girls may be big bang theory for migraine
By Dr. Osei Boaitey, Institute Of Qualitative Methodology University of Alberta, Canada Listen to article
Adolescent girls who reach puberty at an earlier age may also have a greater chance of developing migraine headaches, according to new research from investigators at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine. We know that the percentage of girls and boys who have migraine is pretty much the same until menstruation begins, says Vincent Martin, MD, professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and director of the Headache and Facial Pain Center at the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute. When the menstrual period starts in girls, the prevalence goes way up, but what our data suggests is that it occurs even before that.