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Orofacial pain of cardiac origin, serial of clinical cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Objective: To determine the clinical characteristics of the orofacial pain of cardiac origin in patients visited when doing a treadmill exercise test, at the cardiology service of the Can Ruti Hospital in Badalona (Barcelona, Spain).
Adserias Garriga, Mª José   +5 more
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Integrating Medical Acupuncture and Intraoral Dry Needling Protocol for Radiation-Induced Xerostomia

open access: yesJournal of the California Dental Association
Clinical trials have shown that acupuncture may be effective in treating xerostomia.2 Acupuncture reduces symptoms related to xerostomia in patients who are refractory to current management such as pilocarpine.3 A 60-year old female patient presented ...
S. J. Lee   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Orofacial muscles activity in children with swallowing dysfunction and removable functional appliances [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Swallowing dysfunction is a frequent disorder among children and refers to an altered tongue posture and abnormal tongue movement during swallowing. Removable functional appliance is one of the treatments applied by dentistry to correct this disorder ...
Giustino, Valerio   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Influence of sleep quality on pain characteristics, anxiety symptoms and catastrophizing in patients with painful temporomandibular disorders treated in private orofacial pain clinic

open access: yesBrJP
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Extensive literature has shown that poor sleep quality, anxiety symptoms and catastrophizing contribute to worsening of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) conditions.
Claudia Aparecida de Oliveira Machado   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inventory of personal factors influencing conditioned pain modulation in healthy people: a systematic literature review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) is believed to play an important role in the development and exacerbation of chronic pain, because dysfunction of CPM is associated with a shift in balance between pain facilitation and pain inhibition.
Calders, Patrick   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Limited Mouth Opening Secondary to Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis

open access: yesCase Reports in Dentistry, 2013
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a relatively rare condition with an immunologically mediated pathogenesis. For reasons that are not clearly understood, dense collagen is deposited in the connective tissues of the body in extraordinary amounts.
Tomoko Wada, Saravanan Ram
doaj   +1 more source

A Rare Case of Idiopathic Painful Nervus Intermedius Neuropathy in a 13-Year-Old Female: A Case Report and Discussion in the Context of the Literature

open access: yesChildren, 2022
(1) Background: Painful nervus intermedius neuropathy involves continuous or near-continuous pain affecting the distribution of the intermedius nerve(s). The diagnosis of this entity is challenging, particularly when the clinical and demographic features
Diego Fernandez-Vial   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Subtyping somatic tinnitus: a cross-sectional UK cohort study of demographic, clinical and audiological characteristics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Somatic tinnitus is the ability to modulate the psychoacoustic features of tinnitus by somatic manoeuvres. The condition is still not fully understood and further identification of this subtype is essential, particularly for the purpose of establishing ...
Hall, Deborah A   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Grading the intensity of nondental orofacial pain: Identification of cutoff points for mild, moderate, and severe pain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: When assessing pain in clinical practice, clinicians often label pain as mild, moderate, and severe. However, these categories are not distinctly defined, and are often used arbitrarily.
Brailo, V, Zakrzewska, JM
core   +2 more sources

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