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The role of Nav1.9 channel in the development of neuropathic orofacial pain associated with trigeminal neuralgia [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Trigeminal neuralgia is accompanied by severe mechanical, thermal and chemical hypersensitivity of the orofacial area innervated by neurons of trigeminal ganglion (TG).
Kopach, O, Luiz, AP, Santana-Varela, S, Wood, JN   +3 more
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Integrating Medical Acupuncture and Intraoral Dry Needling Protocol for Radiation-Induced Xerostomia

Journal 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, C. P. Diep, S. Arman, D. V. Messadi, F. S. Younai   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of Oral Pain and Barriers to use of Emergency Oral Care Facilities Among Adult Tanzanians. [PDF]

, 2008
Oral pain has been the major cause of the attendances in the dental clinics in Tanzania. Some patients postpone seeing the dentist for as long as two to five days.
Ahadieli Raphael Senkoro, B Varenne, BH de Oliveira, C Miller, C Okunseri, Emil Namakuka Kikwilu, EP Macias, European Commission, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate – General Community Action Programme on Health Monitoring, Febronia Kokulengya Kahabuka, HJ Mosha, IM Matee, JM Wakiaga, Joyce Rose Masalu, JP Kessy, JT Johnson, K Zittel-Palamara, LB Käll, Ministry of Health, MK Ntabaye, N Ratnayake, RB Fillingim, VR Aggarwal, WH van Palenstein Helderman, World Health Organisation, Y Luo   +24 more
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Influence of sleep quality on pain characteristics, anxiety symptoms and catastrophizing in patients with painful temporomandibular disorders treated in private orofacial pain clinic

BrJP
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, Camila Maria Bastos Machado Resende, Juliana Stuginski-Barbosa, Paulo Cezar Simamoto-Junior   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relationship between cervical spine and skeletal class II in subjects with and without temporomandibular disorders [PDF]

, 2018
AIM. To assess changes of cranio-cervical structure and of hyoid bone position in skeletal Class II subjects with and without Temporomandibular disorders (TMD). MATERIAL AND METHODS.
DI GIACOMO, PAOLA, DI PAOLO, Carlo, Ettore, Accivile, Ferrato, Giacomo, Polimeni, Antonella, Valeria, Ferrara   +5 more
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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

Children, 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, Linda Sangalli, Cristina Perez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

, 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, Hoare, Derek J, Vanneste, Sven, Vella, Claire, Ward, Jamie   +4 more
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Limited Mouth Opening Secondary to Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis

Case 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 Central Somatic Transmission Mediates Proprioceptive Facilitation of Muscle Pain

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Zhang et al. uncover a novel central mechanism for persistent muscle pain, in which TRPA1 sensitization in MeV proprioceptive neurons enhances somatic secretion. This, in turn, disinhibits descending pain control from neighboring noradrenergic locus coeruleus neurons via local GABAergic circuits, thereby promoting inflammatory muscle pain.
Xiaoyu Zhang, Jiale Yang, Xi Wu, Jie Li, Fujian Lu, Yiman Li, Xingyu Du, Rong Huang, Jamila Asgar, Jing Wang, Ke Ren, Feipeng Zhu, Changhe Wang, Yehua Gan, Feng Wei, Zhuan Zhou   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Orofacial pain [PDF]

Pain, 2011
Jason E. Pope, Samer Narouze
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