Orofacial pain is often difficult to diagnose and treat. However, there have been few reports on the clinical observation of dental patients with orofacial pain. We retrospectively investigated the characteristics of 221 dental patients who had suffered from persistent orofacial pain. Data were collected from the outpatient medical records in our clinic over the past 12 years. More than half of...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to determine the oral health status of preschool children attending Head Start Centers in Maryland. METHODS Clinical caries examinations were conducted on 482 children between ages 3-5 from 37 Maryland Head Start Centers in 2000. Additionally, 560 questionnaires were completed by their caretakers regarding their child's access to care, potential caries ...

__________________________________________________ A central feature in contemporary discussions of selfknowledge concerns the epistemic status of mental selfascriptions, such as “I have toothache” or “I believe that p”. The overall project of such discussions is to provide an account of the special status of mental self-ascriptions vis-à-vis other knowledge-claims, including ascriptions of men...

BACKGROUND The Fear of Pain Questionnaire-III (FPQ-III) is a widely used instrument to assess the fear of pain (FOP) in clinical and nonclinical samples. The FPQ-III has 30 items and is divided into three subscales: Severe Pain, Minor Pain and Medical Pain. Due to findings of poor fit of the original three-factor FPQ-III model, the Fear of Pain Questionnaire-Short Form (FPQ-SF) four-factor mode...

This study investigated whether teaching undergraduate dental students the diagnosis and management of acute dental pain alongside the underpinning oral physiology helped them to understand the topic better than teaching them acute dental pain as a separate entity. Each of three clinical years of dental students at the same dental school was taught in two groups. Each group was taught the signs...

A 79 year old fanner referred to a dental clinic because of toothache for one week. After extraction of a painful tooth, three larvae, 1.5 cm in length emerged from the dental cavity. Morphological study of the larvae proved them as W. magnifica. This is the first report of dental cavity myiasis from Iran.

A young man of 23, suffering from severe toothache, had taken 36 grains of exalgin between 2 and 11 p.m. Shortly after 11 he relapsed into unconsciousness. When seen, his temperature was found to be normal, his pulse 79, regular, of fair tension, but all his muscles paretic. With severe pain in his head, convulsions occurred every few minutes, and on tapping the scalp or pricking the arm or leg...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the antinociceptive effects of ginsenosides on toothache. c-Fos immunoreactive (IR) neurons were examined after noxious intrapulpal stimulation (NS) by intrapulpal injection of 2 M KCl into upper and lower incisor pulps exposed by bone cutter in Sprague Dawley rats. The number of Fos-IR neurons was increased in the trigeminal subnucleus caudalis (Vc) ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and intensity of dental pain in children according to size of municipality, associated factors and absenteeism. METHODS The sample consisted of children aged 12 years old from public and private schools drawn from eight cities in the region of Campinas (SP). A questionnaire was applied to obtain dental pain, demographic, socioecon...

1. Master, Dentistry Doctorate Students, Collective Health Area, School of Dentistry of Piracicaba – UNICAMP. Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. 2. Doctor, Assistant Professor, School of Dentistry – Federal University of Pará. Belém, PA, Brazil. 3. Doctor, Professor of Biostatistics, School of Dentistry/UNICAMP. Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. 4. Doctor, Associate Professor of Applied Psychology, School of Dentis...