About Dr. Hirschinger’s Orofacial Pain Practice
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Office Hours
Our normal office hours are:
Monday
8 a.m to 5 a.m
Tuesday
8 a.m to 5 p.m
Wednesday
11 a.m to 5 p.m
Thursday
By appointment
Friday
By appointment
After Hours
By appointment
Special Services Available
House calls, office calls, and visits to mobile locations such as movie sets available.
Contact Information
(310) 935-3152
If you have an after-hours emergency, please call the office, and leave a message.
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Our Mission
Treating chronic pain, by definition, rarely involves any type of quick fix. Dr. Rich Hirschinger’s mission ,at his practice in Beverly Hills, is to help patients manage their chronic head and neck pain as conservatively as possible. Dr. Hirschinger will only treat a patient if he has a diagnosis, and the recommended treatment will be as conservative as possible. If Dr. Hirschinger is not able to treat your specific type of pain, he will refer you to one of his vast network of colleagues, which include neurologists, neurosurgeons, ENT’s, pain psychologists, and many other healthcare practitioners.
Dr. Hirschinger does not believe that patients who suffer from chronic pain in the head and neck need to have their teeth adjusted so he promises to never work on your teeth or, even worse, telling you that you need to have all of your teeth crowned or capped with porcelain crowns, which is common of treatment plans given to patients who see a neuromuscular dentist. Neuromuscular dentistry involves having patient’s wear an appliance 24 hours a day for several months, which can change your bite. Dr. Hirschinger and neuromuscular dentists agree that a lot of pain reported by patients is caused my muscles. However, Dr. Hirschinger will treat muscle pain by treating the muscles, but neuromuscular dentists will treat muscle pain by treating the teeth, which makes no sense to Dr. Hirschinger.
A Tour of Dr. Hirschinger’s Beverly Hills Orofacial Pain Office
The following questions are excellent screening questions to determine if you are at risk of having sleep apnea. Please answer the questions and submit the form, and either Wendy or Dr. Hirschinger, who sees patients from Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and any area outside of Southern California for obstructive sleep apnea, will contact you to let you know if you are at risk for sleep apnea. These are simple screening tools but the only way to diagnosis sleep apnea is for you to have an overnight sleep study at a certified sleep lab, and then have the results read by a sleep physician.
There are many doctors who use dental appliances to treat obstructive sleep apnea but many took a weekend course or two and then started treating patients. Dr. Hirschinger attended a full time, two year residency at UCLA in orofacial pain and dental sleep medicine. Please learn more about Dr. Hirschinger.
There is a second treatment room, which also houses the lab and sterilizer for the office.
Looking away from the windows in the main treatment area.
Reception area with coffee for patients, and a very cute magazine holder.
A comfortable couch, and if you look close, you will see the stainless steel door of the elevator right outside our front door.
The main treatment area consists of a couch for patients, and a massage table as the treatment area. You will notice there is no dental drill since Dr. Hirschinger’s training proves chronic head and neck pain is not related to the bite.