(1) Promising reports, however, support its use in the diagnosis of neuralgias and atypical odontalgia, TMJ, nerve damage and repair after oral surgery, and in evaluating local dental anesthesia.
(2) The purpose of the present study is to update the reader on atypical odontalgia and to present some preliminary data on the long-term follow-up of a subsample (n = 28) of these patients.
(3) The cause, pathological features, diagnosis, and management of an oral herpes zoster infection with prodromal odontalgia are discussed.
(4) This article reports a pertinent case of a 50-year-old man who exhibited prodromal odontalgia before the appearance of vesicular mucocutaneous lesions, together with severe destruction of the maxillary bone and exfoliation of multiple teeth.
(5) The most frequently found indications are: Odontalgia, Inflammation of the oral mucosa, Bad breath, Progressing dental cavities.
(6) Henricues Regius (1598--1679), professor at the University of Utrecht was the first physician who accepted the physiology of the philosopher Descartes (1596--1750) that he exposed in Fundamenta physices (1646) and in Fundamenta Medicinae (1647) but in Praxis Medica (1657) his therapy of the "odontalgia" is still mediaeval according to the principles of Galen.
(7) A case of trigeminal neuralgia presenting as odontalgia in a 47-year-old female is described.
(8) On the basis of this larger sample size, the relationship between atypical odontalgia and migraine does not appear to be as strong as initially reported.
(9) The findings in 30 cases diagnosed as atypical odontalgia are presented.
(10) The present study shows a high frequency of self-medication in patients with odontalgia suggesting that this type of pain might be useful as a model to study self-medication with analgesic drugs.
(11) Odontalgia is a painful condition which is frequently associated to self-medication with analgesics.
(12) To help avert the untimely diagnosis of atypical odontalgia, identifying inclusion criteria are presented.
(13) A case of oral herpes zoster infection with prodromal odontalgia is presented.
(14) Atypical odontalgia describes atypical facial pain in apparently normal teeth.
(15) Forty-four cases of odontalgia are described which are considered to be a painful migraine-like disturbance of the blood vessels of the dental pulp and periodontal membrane.
(16) This paper reviews literature on idiopathic odontalgia and tooth hypersensitivity without apparent cause, and considers the role bioelectric mechanisms may play in the onset and treatment of these moderately common disorders.
(17) Atypical odontalgia patients are typified by women in their mid-40s who complain of persistent pain in one or more premolar or molar teeth.
(18) Atypical odontalgia (AO) is a dental condition that is usually diagnosed by exclusion after failure of multiple dental treatments.
(19) While the cause of atypical odontalgia is uncertain, deafferentation pain appears to be a plausible mechanism.
Toothache
Definition:
(n.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was to find out if here is a relation between "toothache" and airhygienic influences.
(2) A case is reported of a patient with sudden onset, generalized toothache accompanied with a numb chin and lower lip.
(3) Studies indicated that each person could have three to four days of dental pain a year which could be equivalent to 200 million days of toothache per year in the United Kingdom.
(4) He has lost 10kg since he arrived on Manus and he sleeps poorly, troubled by a toothache and infection.
(5) However, compared to the third graders, younger children were less likely to reject proximity to a sick person and naughty behavior as causes of toothaches.
(6) Perceived dental health of the study sample (N = 1,658) was notably lower in the presence of a toothache, increasing numbers of decayed teeth, and worsening periodontal health.
(7) Previous dental experience was decided on the basis of three questions related to extraction, fillings, and toothache.
(8) The effectiveness of benzocaine in relieving toothache pain verifies previous studies; however, a difference between 10% and 20% benzocaine could not be demonstrated probably because of two factors: 1) the present experiment had a small sample size, and 2) there was no direct measurement of duration of local anesthesia.
(9) We report the case of a 24-year-old man who ingested 17 g of equine phenylbutazone over a 24-hour period to treat the pain of a toothache.
(10) Described as Blencathra's "shining beacon" by Alfred Wainwright, who also wrote that the sight of it at close quarters was sufficient "to make a beholder forget all other worries, even a raging toothache", Sharp Edge is a Lake District accident blackspot.
(11) Their carriage rates were compared with a University group comprising normal healthy students, academic staff, technicians and ancillary personnel and with a cohort of otherwise healthy toothache patients.
(12) Toothache of nonodontogenic origin may be better differentiated with the use of differential diagnostic blockade.
(13) The relative severeness of toothache and two non-dental symptoms (headache, stomach complaints) was judged by men and women (n = 47).
(14) The pain most often experienced was less severe than an earache or toothache, more severe than a menstrual pain or headache.
(15) Even though the majority of the subjects preferred preservation (59%) when having toothache, exodontia was the treatment of choice in a large proportion of subjects (41%).
(16) He is down on his hands and knees every time he hears the doorbell ring, he shakes like a toothache every time he hears the phone sing.
(17) They keep popping up!” Late in the morning, a tall 16-year-old with terrible toothache came in.
(18) These studies are discussed in relation to various dental clinical problems such as hypersensitive teeth, episodic toothache, early onset of periapical lesions, dental anesthesia, and possible roles for sensory fibers and neuropeptides in tissue defense and healing.
(19) A functional definition of AO includes (1) continuous pain in and about a tooth or teeth, (2) pain present for longer than 4 months, (3) inadequate local cause (no abnormality detected on dental radiographs), and (4) anesthetic blockade gives equivocal relief of toothache.
(20) It is observed at the Dental OPD that some of the patients suffer from toothache are due to tooth fracture.