Diagnostic categories orofacial pain non-odontogenic. Condition.Although pain of dental origin is the most common orofacial pain, other non-odontogenic pains can affect the orofacial region and occasionally mimic den. International Journal of Scientific Study June 2014 Vol 2 Issue 3. Non-Odontogenic Toothache A Clinical Dilemma. The objective of this article was to present two nonodontogenic co...

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a late-onset side effect mainly affecting the orofacial region of patients treated chronically with classic antipsychotic drugs such as haloperidol (HAL). The causes of TD remain unknown. We hypothesized that faulty synaptic re-organization might be related to TD-like syndromes and used the vacuous chewing movements (VCM) model in rats to investigate the expression of...

Data from many experiments has shown that serotonin2C (5-HT2C) receptor plays a role in the control of orofacial activity in rodents. Purposeless oral movements can be elicited either by agonists or inverse agonists implying a tight control exerted by the receptor upon oral activity. The effects of agonists has been related to an action of these drugs in the subthalamic nucleus and the striatum...

Although dyskinesia is a frequent and important problem in Parkinson's disease (PD), a reliable assessment measure has not been thoroughly developed and tested. We modified the Obeso dyskinesia scale to create an objective rating scale for dyskinesia assessment during activities of daily living. Thirteen physicians and 15 study coordinators involved in a clinical trial independently reviewed vi...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence and incidence of tardive dyskinesia in patients treated with olanzapine during the follow-up period of 20 months. METHODS It was a prospective, observational, non-interventional study under naturalistic conditions, without a control group. The evaluation of the severity and presence of tardive dyskinesia was performed with the...

Maladaptive plasticity at corticostriatal synapses plays an important role in the development of levodopa-induced dyskinesia. Recently, it has been shown that synaptic plasticity is closely linked to morphologic changes of dendritic spines. To evaluate morphologic changes of dendritic spines of two types of striatal medium spiny neurons, which project to the internal segment of globus pallidus ...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to determine the incidence, age, gender, orofacial sites and histological pattern of paediatric orofacial tumours in a Nigerian population. The yearly findings will be analysed to identify the interval for increase in the incidence of paediatric orofacial tumours. PATIENTS AND METHODS A 21-year (1990 to 2010) retrospective analysis of paediatric orofacial tumours in ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to estimate the incidence of orofacial injuries in youth soccer in the 1995 fall and 1996 spring seasons for eight Dallas, Texas metropolitan area YMCA youth soccer leagues. METHOD Surveys requesting orofacial injury as well as game and practice information were sent to all soccer coaches of children 3 to 12 years of age in eight cooperating YMCA leagues ...

In this paper, vocal tract and orofacial motions are measured during speech production in order to demonstrate that vocal tract motion can be used to estimate its orofacial counterpart. The inversion, i.e. vocal tract behavior estimation from orofacial motion, is also possible, but to a smaller extent. The numerical results showed that vocal tract motion accounted for 96% of the total variance ...

Tardive dyskinesia has been and continues to be a significant problem associated with long-term antipsychotic use, but its pathophysiology remains unclear. In the last 10 years, preclinical studies of the administration of antipsychotics to animals, as well as clinical studies of oxidative processes in patients given antipsychotic medications, with and without tardive dyskinesia, have continued...