WITH THE SINUS, CHECK THE JAW: EDITION FIVE
Chronic or recurrent maxillary sinusitis that does not respond to antibiotics or ENT treatment is often driven by a silent tooth eroding into the sinus floor. With the sinus, check the jaw.
WITH THE EAR, CHECK THE JAW: EDITION FOUR
Persistent earache with a normal ear examination is often referred pain from a silent tooth. Antibiotics will not fix it. With the ear, check the jaw.
BEFORE THE NERVE, CHECK THE JAW: EDITION THREE
Patients diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia or atypical facial pain are sometimes placed on neurological medication for years when the true origin is a silent tooth. Before the nerve is treated, check the jaw.
BEFORE THE JOINT, CHECK THE JAW: EDITION TWO
Jaw pain, clicking and limited opening are often treated as a joint problem. In many patients the joint is the victim. A silent infection at a tooth root, with no toothache, can drive the muscle spasm and bruxism that damage it. A CBCT finds what a panoramic X-ray misses.
BEFORE THE JOINT, CHECK THE JAW
If you are scheduled for a hip or knee replacement, one evaluation is frequently overlooked: your teeth. Silent infection at the tip of a tooth root can seed a new joint. At our practice, every patient referred for total joint arthroplasty has a dental CBCT before surgery.
DR DIRK MAREE JOINING THE PRACTICE
It is with great excitement that I am sharing the news that Dr Dirk Maree (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon) will be joining the team of our new practice. Dirk has been a central part of the team managing head and neck oncology, and reconstruction cases since I started in private practice in 2008. He qualified as a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon from The University of Pretoria in 2006 and has a private practice based in Centurion.