1. Chronic facial pain associated with endodontic therapy.
- Author
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Campbell RL, Parks KW, and Dodds RN
- Subjects
- Agnosia etiology, Chronic Disease, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Paresthesia etiology, Retrospective Studies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Toothache etiology, Apicoectomy adverse effects, Facial Pain etiology, Pain, Postoperative etiology, Root Canal Therapy adverse effects
- Abstract
Retrospective study was done on 118 patients who underwent nonsurgical endodontics and then surgical endodontics. Seventy-nine patients had pain before nonsurgical endodontics, and an additional 39 were pain free. After the open surgical procedure, six patients (5%) had continual pain and were considered failures. Three patients (2.5%) were thought to have had posttraumatic dysesthesia, and the other three (2.5%) were considered to have phantom tooth pain. Possible mechanisms for each chronic pain type are discussed.
- Published
- 1990
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