This study investigated whether teaching undergraduate dental students the diagnosis and management of acute dental pain alongside the underpinning oral physiology helped them to understand the topic better than teaching them acute dental pain as a separate entity. Each of three clinical years of dental students at the same dental school was taught in two groups. Each group was taught the signs...

BACKGROUND In Tanzania, oral health services are mostly in the form of dental extractions aimed at alleviating acute dental pain. Conservative methods of alleviating acute dental pain are virtually non-existent. Therefore, it was the aim of this study to determine treatment success of emergency pulpotomy in relieving acute dental pain. METHODS SETTING School of Dentistry, Muhimbili Nationa...

Pain and pain control are important to the dental profession because the general perception of the public is that dental treatment and pain go hand in hand. Successful dental treatment requires that the source of pain be detected. If the origin of pain is not found, inappropriate dental care and, ultimately, extraction may result. Pain experienced before, during, or after endodontic therapy is ...

AIMS To identify the effect of unmet dental treatment needs and socioeconomic and sociodemographic variables on the patterns of dental visits in the presence of dental pain in 6- to 12-year-old Mexican schoolchildren. METHODS A case-control study included 379 patients that had a dental visit because of dental pain in the 12 months preceding this study and 1,137 controls. Mothers and/or guardi...

ED visits for dental care are on the rise. Some dental conditions can progress to life-threatening complications; stabilizing patients in such cases is incumbent on the emergency physician, as is management of pain and, to some extent, of the dental condition or injury itself. This article reviews basic dental anatomy as well as nontraumatic and traumatic causes of dental pain.

background and aims. orofacial pain is one of the most common reasons for attendance at the dental clinic. the prevalence and the sources of orofacial pain vary from place to place and patients’ response to pain also differs. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of orofacial pain as well as the factors influencing patients’ response to orofacial pain among patients ...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence and associated factors of musculoskeletal (MS) pain among the dental personnel. In addition, impacts and treatment of MS pain were reported. MATERIAL AND METHOD Random sampling of 390 participants from the name lists of dental personnel working in each department. Self-administered questionnaires were equally distributed to three groups of dental personnel na...

Oral care has been traditionally considered poor in nursing homes and increased dental problems have been associated in people with dementia. Whilst behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) have been associated with pain in general, a link with dental pain has so far not yet been established. This study investigated the potential link between treatable dental problems (that mig...

BACKGROUND In dental examining rooms, children experience diagnostic and therapeutic pain related to dental procedures that may be associated with anxiety. Therefore, the main objective of the present study was to evaluate anxiety and pain levels related to dental procedures in children. METHODS Children in a Mexican pediatric dental clinic rated their dental anxiety using the Modified Dental...

Physical and psychosocial stressors in dental schools are associated with adverse health outcome, including low back pain. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physical fitness course included in a dental school's curriculum with regard to prevention of low back pain. Ninety first-year and sixty-two final-year dental students completed an anonymous questionnaire on physical fitness habits ...