Mh. Friedman, ATYPICAL FACIAL-PAIN - THE CONSISTENCY OF IPSILATERAL MAXILLARY AREA TENDERNESS AND ELEVATED-TEMPERATURE, The Journal of the American Dental Association, 126(7), 1995, pp. 855-860
A consistent zone of ipsilateral tenderness adjacent to the maxillary
molar root apices often is present in patients with atypical facial pa
in. The author performed bilateral palpation and recorded the temperat
ure of this area on 18 consecutive patients with facial pain. ne found
tenderness and increased temperature on the involved side of the face
in 15 and 17 patients, respectively. In two control groups of 10 pati
ents without pain and 10 TMD patients, he observed no significant asso
ciation between maxillary tenderness and increased temperature.