Oral Facial/ Head and Neck Pain in Bellingham, WA

Is chronic head, face, and neck pain taking a toll on your health and happiness?

Defeat chronic pain for good with a comfortable Oral Systemic Balance appliance!

Many people who suffer from chronic head, neck, and face pain believe that they can’t do anything to treat their discomfort. This pain is often debilitating--some chronic sufferers even find that they cannot swallow, sleep, and breathe normally. Patients often write off this chronic pain as a mysterious ailment, and they simply resign themselves to living in pain. The truth is, using revolutionary Oral Systemic Balance appliances, we can treat oral, facial, head, and neck pain, allowing many patients to resume their normal lives.

What is Oral Systemic Balance?

Oral Systemic Balance is a groundbreaking, drug-free pain-relief system. This therapy, developed by Dr. Farrand Robson, utilizes dental retainers to facilitate breathing, and improve sleep quality. Because of the holistic importance of the mouth, tongue, and throat, imbalances in these areas can cause the nervous system to react dramatically, causing pain and tension.

Because head and neck pain is a common (and sometimes mysterious) side effect of sleep disturbances, Oral Systemic Balance treats chronic pain by addressing the root causes--eating/breathing malfunctions and sleep disturbances. Oral Systemic Balance appliances are effective for head, neck, face, and shoulder pain.

What does this have to do with the mouth, tongue, and throat?

The back of the throat has an opening that allows both food and air to pass into the body. This opening leads to the lungs (for air) and the esophagus (for food). The epiglottis--a flap of tissue in the throat--separates the trachea’s (breathing) and esophagus’ (eating) functions, making sure that food does not go into the lungs and vice versa.

If the size or design of a person’s mouth or tongue prevents optimal epiglottal functioning, the rest of the body overcompensates so that the patient can breathe, eat, and drink. For instance, some patients may clench their jaws, while others scrunch their shoulders. These actions are largely unconscious, but they are constantly increasing the adrenaline, stress, and tension in the body, resulting in headaches, soreness, and neck cramps. 

At Bellingham Smile Care and Sleep Center, we utilize non-invasive Oral Systemic Balance appliances to manage tongue and jaw alignment. These appliances allow the jaw and tongue muscles to relax, and maintain optimal oral structure. This reduces the sympathetic nervous system’s production of adrenaline, as well as stress and strain on the neck, face, head, and mouth muscles, thereby reducing pain.

Why Bellingham patients trust Dr. Prager to treat oral/facial/head/neck pain: