by Dr. Shapira | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog, Dentist |
Across the country Blue Cross Blue Shield is eliminating medical coverage for SPG Blocks declaring them experimental. This is an enormous and costly mistake that will harm patients and increase medical expenses. There is a better alternative. Sphenopalatine Ganglion...
by Dr. Shapira | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog
Dr Shapira has utilized Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks for over 30 years in his clinical practice. The amazing SPG Blocks can treat and eliminate chronic daily headache, migraine, cluster headaches and other autonomic cephalgias as well as anxiety and PTSD. The book...
by Dr. Shapira | Dec 24, 2017 | TMJ Chicago
Rapid treatment of Orofacial pain is very important because of the deleterious effects on your quality of life. According to an article in Cranio (abstract below) Journal SPG Blocks are “Sphenopalatine ganglion block: a safe and easy method for the management of...
by Dr. Shapira | Dec 20, 2017 | TMJ Chicago
I am continuing looking at Orofacial Pain and actually checking the references used in the paper “Orofacial pain management: current perspectives” from Pain Res. 2014; 7: 99–115. This paper will focus on an article cited “Myofascial Pain Syndrome as...
by Dr. Shapira | Dec 20, 2017 | TMJ Chicago
Treatment of Orofacial Pain can be complex and there are many issues that are both medical and dental in nature. There is hope and this paper gives one clear example of what is wrong with many of the concepts of the Orofacial Pain Group that tends to discount valuable...
