ReviewSpecial care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry2018
Applications of sensory and physiological measurement in oral-facial dental pain.
Review in Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Development and Validation of Chinese Version of Dental Pain Screening Questionnaire.International dental journal · 2025Article
- A Commentary on "Association Between Oral Behaviors and Painful Temporomandibular Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study in the General Population" [Letter].Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Involvement of Oxidative Stress and Nutrition in the Anatomy of Orofacial Pain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Orofacial Pain Management: An Overview of the Potential Benefits of Palmitoylethanolamide and Other Natural Agents.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
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- Tooth hypersensitivity associated with paresthesia after inferior alveolar nerve injury: case report and related neurophysiology.Journal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine · 2021Article
- Clinical Differential Diagnosis between Nonodontogenic and Endodontic Radiolucent Lesions in Periapical Location: A Critical Review.Iranian endodontic journal · 2021Review
- Orofacial quantitative sensory testing: Current evidence and future perspectives.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2020Review
- Applications of sensory and physiological measurement in oral-facial dental pain.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry · 2018Review
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Abstract
Dentists regularly employ a variety of self-report and sensory techniques to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of tooth-related disease. Many of these techniques leverage principles borrowed from psychophysics, the quantitative measurement of the relationship between stimuli and evoked sensations, which falls under the larger umbrella of quantitative sensory testing (QST). However, most clinicians fail to meet the bar for what could be considered quantitative sensory testing, and instead focus on qualitative and dichotomous "yes/no" aspects of sensory experience. With our current subjective measurements for pain assessments, diagnosis and treatment of dental pain in young children and individuals (any age) with severe cognitive impairment rely extensively on third-party observations. Consequently, the limitation of inadequate pain diagnosis can lead to poor pain management. In this review, it discusses mechanisms that underlie acute and chronic dental pain. It details the measurement of somatosensory responses and pulpal blood flow as objective measures of tooth health and pain. It proposes that bridging these varied methodologies will significantly improve diagnosis and treatment of orofacial pain and pathology. It concludes that improving the precision of sensory measurements could yield important improvements in diagnostic challenges in pulpal pathology for noncommunicative and cognitively impaired individuals.
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