Rich Hirschinger, DDS Revenue

About Rich Hirschinger, DDS

Dr. Hirschinger is one of less than 300 doctors in the United States to be a Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain. He completed a two-year full time residency in the UCLA Orofacial Pain and Dental Sleep Medicine program, and now serves as a lecturer at UCLA teaching other doctors in the same residency. Dr. Hirschinger sees patients at his private practice in Beverly Hills and he is also fully mobile with his service, and can see patients at their home, office, and even on location such as at a movie set. Primary headaches are headaches that are not caused by anything else such as a tumor, a stroke, etc. Primary headaches include migraines, tension-type headaches, and cluster headaches. Patients can, and usually do, have more than one type of headache so a thorough patient history is important to insure that each headache is identified. Headaches can be caused by several different factors, and treatment includes medications to abort a headache as well as medications to reduce the number of headaches, and possibly prevent the headaches. Myofascial pain is a fancy way of saying muscle pain. Head and neck myofascial pain is caused by trigger points in the muscles that result in pain in the jaw, neck, back of the head, and temples. Myofascial pain can be caused by overuse of muscles from clenching and/or grinding the teeth, or even from texting. Temporomandibular joint disorder, also known as TMJ, TMD, or TMJD, is a general term covering any disorder causing inflammation of the temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ), which is the joint that connects the skull to the jaw. Obstructive sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder marked by shallow, labored breathing, pauses in breath, and can be punctuated by gasping for air, and/or snoring sounds. Dr. Hirschinger is also the inventor of the gentle jaw, which in four words is, "yoga for the jaw." www.gentlejaw.com

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