Burning Mouth Syndrome and Other Oral Sensory Disorders: A Unifying Hypothesis
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Chronic orofacial pain is a symptom associated with a wide range of neuropathic, neurovascular, idiopathic, and myofascial conditions that affect a significant proportion of the population. While the collective impact of the subset of the orofacial pain disorders involving neurogenic and idiopathic mechanisms is substantial, some of these are relatively uncommon. Hence, patients with these diso...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pain Research and Management
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1203-6765
DOI: 10.1155/2003/654735