Sleep and Health Journal

According to information on the AADSM website "the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine supports new guidelines that identify oral appliance therapy as an effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnea.

An article just published considers Tension-Type Headache (TTH) to be the most common headache. The authors also feel that TTH is a precursor for Chronic daily headache. Tension-Type headaches, according to the article, have peripheral mechanisms. The conversion to Chronic Daily Headaches or Chronic Type Tension Headache (CTTH) is considered debilitating.

Treatment of migraines, tension-type headaches and chronic daily headaches is frequently succesful considered to be primarily in the hands of neurologists but there is increasing evidence that neuromuscular dentistry may be a more ideal treatment for migraines, even unilateral migraines.