Could there possibly be a link to MAV and tooth problems? A little over a year ago my ongoing MAV symptoms started. Around the same time I have had (still have) a slew of dental issues. In one year I had 2 cavities, a crown, a root canal, a re-do root canal and an extraction, all on different teeth. I still am having on going pain that my endodontist can’t figure out. I have never had this many teeth problems, especially in one year! Possibly related to everything else I have going on???
Do you grind your teeth at night? If you don’t know, your husband does. 
I found out a year ago that you can grind your teeth hard enough to irritate the nerves that run along your teeth. If those nerve get irritated, you can expierence pain even though your teeth have been root canalled. Grinding can also cause your jaw muscles to get sore from being overworked, and then they tense up and spread pain all over the place.
I find that when I am in a bad migraine phase, my teeth are sensitive and I get toothache.
I am lucky to have had one filling in 20 years so my teeth are good (about the only part of me that doesnt feel like its falling to pieces!). I have had the migraine for longer than that and its still going strong! So for me, no, teeth, dont play a part.
Christine
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Could there possibly be a link to MAV and tooth problems? A little over a year ago my ongoing MAV symptoms started. Around the same time I have had (still have) a slew of dental issues. In one year I had 2 cavities, a crown, a root canal, a re-do root canal and an extraction, all on different teeth. I still am having on going pain that my endodontist can’t figure out. I have never had this many teeth problems, especially in one year! Possibly related to everything else I have going on???
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I wonder too as I have problems with my teeth and constant infection which I wonder if this could be contributing to the issues that I have. The dental work I need to have done is very expensive and unfortunately do not have the money to get it all done but I am going to try and get some of it done a bit at a time. I have heard and read that problems with your teeth and gum disease can cause of contribute to a lot of health problems. I wonder if there have been any studies done along these lines and plus what about mercury fillings can they cause problems , too.
I have no idea re: actual dental issues, but toothache is a major migraine symptom for me. In fact, I usually have more pain in my teeth than I do in my head (and then again, pain isn’t my main symptom either).
Hi. I posted on the other TMJ thread (read if interested), but I just wanted to note that my neuro-doc says there is a facial-cranial pain connection, meaning, it can trigger problems with MAV. My MAV started full swing after my jaw went out and I found I have big TMJ problems. My doc believe this “triggered” the MAV; keep in mind, however, that this happened also because I already have migraine and balance issues. People with MAV tend to be “wired” differently, or rather, are more succeptable than others. So I guess my point is that yes, it wouldn’t surprise me if having a tooth issue affects your MAV.
Well I had a dentist appointment this morning and found out (really already knew) I have bad gum disease and most of my teeth are now savable…
So the plan is to pull the top teeth and make me a dental plate and then save as many of the bottom and make a partial plate for the bottom ones.
She is going to work with me to do a little bit at a time so that it effects me as little as we can but the infection has to be dealt with soon.
So I wonder if the infection in my mouth could be contributing to my problems. I hope that this will go well as I am a bit nervous but we will see how it goes.
Hi Andrea,
Here is something worth a look.
my mother has this, and had many teeth taken out before she found the true cause.
she always has aura before an attack, her pain can last for up to a week.
Trigeminal neuralgia
neurosurgerytoday.org/what/p … eminal.asp
jen
Since we are talking about dental problems and MAV…
I mentioned in another thread that I busted a tooth last week. I found out yesterday that the tooth has been rotting away for awhile, right before they pulled it. Because I have been having a very hard time with my MAV symptoms this last month, I am wondering how much of my problems over the last month have been linked to that tooth?
BTW, it feels so much better to be rid of that tooth, even though it wasn’t hurting thanks to a root canal, but the whole thing has been feeling odd for the last several months.
Brian
Hi
I am intrigued by this thread and it corresponds with another one on Dizzytimes I also read today. Just before I came down with what is now diagnosed with MAV I had some major dental work done and got really bad toothache, which then proceeded to become all the symptoms of VN / MAV. For sometime the doctors were baffled as to whether the problem was caused by or running alongside a dental problem - as well as the other nasty worries which sent me to get MRI and other tests. I have been very confused by the multiple diagnoses - and still have the MAV/VN after 3 years. I am taking Pizotifen now (on week 4, having had to go off propranolol which worked well at getting rid of the MAV as it caused too low heart rate. The Pizotifen is not brilliant, but I am giving it a go. Does anyone else have experience of using Pizotifen ?
I would be v. interested to see if there really is a link to dental work - it would make sense.
Best wishes to all. (I am using Painting O9 as a name, as I found with another site my posting went to the www !!)
Painting09
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Since we are talking about dental problems and MAV…
I mentioned in another thread that I busted a tooth last week. I found out yesterday that the tooth has been rotting away for awhile, right before they pulled it. Because I have been having a very hard time with my MAV symptoms this last month, I am wondering how much of my problems over the last month have been linked to that tooth?
BTW, it feels so much better to be rid of that tooth, even though it wasn’t hurting thanks to a root canal, but the whole thing has been feeling odd for the last several months.
Brian
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This is all very interesting to me since I have such horrible teeth I wonder is there is any correlation between the two , with the teeth being so close to the brain and how having problems could effect this condition. The one I had pulled last week feels so much better now and I wonder if with the others being in bad shape this is contributing to my symptoms or at the very least making them worse.
I was told over five years ago I needed to do something with them and was unable to at the time…I guess I will see if it makes any difference once I get them all fixed.
There is a lot of thought process out there that says bad teeth can effect your overall health, I wonder if it could to this degree with people that suffer from migraine.
I don’t think that it is a chicken before the egg syndrome, which came first is causing the other. Instead, more of a cyclic pattern where one feed off of the other, the migraine factor of the MAV causes teeth clenching wich in turn causes sore muscles starting in the jaw and spreading out. This in turn causes more muslcles in the skull to tighten causing the teeth to clech more, and so forth.
Anyway, this is my theory between dental problems and MAV/migraines.
Brian