Took me a bit to get here because I was on an old board I guess.
I began my painful journey when I was 12. I had painful migraines on the right side of my head, behind my eye, and all those nerves. One upper tooth would also be affected by that cluster of nerves at the jaw joint. I've taken every drug for migraines, and even went to the dentist to see if there was a problem. It seemed to hit me in the spring, and I would get up to 2 migraines a day, for up to a 3 month period. In the last 10 years it also came in the fall. I've done everything, diet, exercise pain meds, but there was no way out.
It wasn't until 4 years ago when my dentist wanted me to go see another dentist to drill into my tooth to see if the root was cracked. It was the same tooth that would explode in pain during a migraine. I decided to have the tooth pulled. I have not had a bad migraine since. I still get the aura, and the minor things that let me know that my cycle has begun, but there is no more pain. I am now 52 years old, I suffered for over 35 years with these horrid cluster headaches. If dentists would truly listen, and do some kind of better xray to show the tooth root way clearer, I would not have suffered to the extent I have.
My advice, is to find someone who can zoom in on the root system of your upper jaw to see if maybe you do in fact have a cracked root, I bet half of the people if not more, would not have to suffer with this anymore. There are several reasons it could have cracked, and I'm not sure why mine was. It could be from a hit to the face, you could clench your jaw. These are my two possibilities to why I suffered.
I did go to the dentist a couple times when my cycle of migraines did come, xrays were taken, and they found nothing. So even normal xrays do not zoom in on these cracks, and the tooth that affected my migraines was the top 6th on my right side. Right next to a cluster of nerves that fed my whole right side of my face. When our bodies have pain, there is a reason. You have to be diligent and look at other issues before you live a life of being given drug after drug for over half your life.
I hope I can help some of you, I believe I can if you can find a dentist to zoom in on your roots where the cluster of nerves are. Get that tooth pulled if it is cracked, and live a normal life.

Did I say it was a cure? I said that there very well could be something there for many people. Don't be a negative because it very well could help someone.

...which means I ain't going back to my corner.

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Sometimes.

Not for the vast majority of sufferers.

Which is why I felt your advice:
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...was way out of line.

Trying to protect other newbies from bad advice is not my idea of fun. It's more like an obligation.

Just did a search on tooth pain with ch. no no no no. I'm not suggesting ppl just go pull their teeth, so I see why you are protective. I only suggest finding someone to check the structure of the roots. Most dentists xrays don't do a good enough picture to see if the root is fractured. My dentist was going to send me to someone to drill because he thought it was cracked, and I decided to just have it pulled because aside from the migraines, I was having sensitivity issues with it. Luckily I was right, the root was cracked, and long story short. I know I am a clencher. When ppl are going thru the intense pain of a ch, chances are they clench. Now I don't know if thats how my root got cracked, and I don't remember getting any injuries from the accident, but I could have. It just seems there got to be some plausible explanations to why we have the intense pain. Theres just not enough real info other than what works or doesn't work. I've been a Guinea pig for the medical community and do not trust them anymore. I know everyones story is unique to these, I do feel nerves and vessels have a lot to do with it.
So, with that, I'm done.

Mizzmo,

Unless I totally missed it, you have Migraines not cluster headaches.  They are not the same AT ALL.

Toothache, whether it is from a nerve problem, absess, infected tooth, or anything else that can go wrong with teeth has nothing to do whatsoever with cluster headaches.  True...my teeth on the affected side hurt...but that has to do with the trigeminal nerve.  Nothing more.

I wouldn't be surprised if the total number of teeth that members here have had pulled, hoping in vain it would relieve their pain, could number 1,000.

I know I had a few pulled, and it's a sadly typical detour that leads to a dead end for an undiagnosed CH'er .

@ Strat...even though that Dr. left you like that.. KUDOS to him for letting you know to NOT pull any teeth.  Too many doctors who have NO clue about cluster headaches routinely tell us to do do that and worse.

Thank God for this site, so we can educate the newcomers. 

Mizzmo...PLEASE  take some time to read around this site.  We are all here due to CH...not Migraines.

MizzMo,
Read up about the trigeminal nerve

Must give you a LOL. Before I was diagnosed june this year, always thought it was "sinus ploblems" but in the end the pain was so #10 that one night at 1am I extracted my own tooth!!  Needless to say it didnt help. Luckily I am a dentist and injected myself first almost passed out doing it. Still practicing full time. Cope with O2 and Coffee. 2 1/2 yrs since it started. Side effects of meds was too bad. It seems in my cronic it peaks every 2 weeks luckily over weekends.

Pain free days to you all

hell-jee

I've spent thousands on my teeth, but not because of CH.  I happen to have bad teeth with soft enamels.  I've had a root canal done on a live inflamed nerve that wouldn't deaden with triple novacaine, but it had nothing to do with CH.  It didn't hurt as badly either even though the Dr had to hold me in the chair to pull out the nerve.  I understand because of that what terrible pain teeth can cause, but there is absolutely no relationship to CH. 

I hope this makes sense.  I'm so sleep deprived I don't know what I'm saying and my computer can't spell.

Jerry