ATYPICAL FACIAL-PAIN - THE CONSISTENCY OF IPSILATERAL MAXILLARY AREA TENDERNESS AND ELEVATED-TEMPERATURE

Authors
Citation
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
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine
ISSN journal
00028177
Volume
126
Issue
7
Year of publication
1995
Pages
855 - 860
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-8177(1995)126:7<855:AF-TCO>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
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.