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A Year of Chronic TMPDS: Evaluating Patients’ Pain Patterns

1992; Elsevier BV; Volume: 123; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.14219/jada.archive.1992.0284

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Karen G. Raphel, Joseph J. Marbach,

Pain Mechanisms and Treatments

Drs. Karen G. Raphael and Joseph J. Marbach chronicle the pain experienced by a study sample suffering from temporomandibular pain and dysfunction syndrome in “A Year of Chronic TMPDS: Evaluating Patients’ Pain Patterns.” In 136 women with TMPDS observed for one year, pain was highly variable. No respondent had a consistent pattern of pain increase or decrease. Drs. Karen G. Raphael and Joseph J. Marbach chronicle the pain experienced by a study sample suffering from temporomandibular pain and dysfunction syndrome in “A Year of Chronic TMPDS: Evaluating Patients’ Pain Patterns.” In 136 women with TMPDS observed for one year, pain was highly variable. No respondent had a consistent pattern of pain increase or decrease.