Antibiotics don't cure toothache...

Miracle cure: the story of antibiotics

These essays prefigure many of Ryle's later ideas on "social medicine". For Ryle, the biomedical sciences had narrowed the scope ofmedicine in an era when it most needed to expand its horizons, epistemology, and aims. He was later to recruit the methods of the modern social sciences to enhance his idea of clinical practice as the natural history of disease in order to place it on a preventive b...

Toothache Symptoms

Toothache Symptoms

Toothache in US children.

OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence of and risk factors for recent toothache among US children and to estimate frequency of contact between children with toothache and their pediatric primary care providers (PPCP). DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative data. SETTING The 2007 National Survey of Children's Health. PARTICIPANTS Population-based sample of parents/guar...

Non-odontogenic toothache revisited

Although pain of dental origin is the most common orofacial pain, other non-odontogenic pains can affect the orofacial region and occasionally mimic dental pain. These non-odontogenic pains may pose a diagnostic dilemma for the dental practitioner who routinely diagnoses and treats dental pain. Knowledge of the various non-odontogenic pains will ultimately prevent misdiagnosis and the delivery ...