A 34-year-old woman visited our clinic with complaints of trismus, numbness in the left half of the tongue, and pain in tooth 34. At the patient’s initial visit to our clinic, the maximum assisted jaw opening movemen...
Background: Self-medication is the inappropriate use of drugs to treat self-diagnosed disorders or symptoms. Even though Self-medication has benefits as it enhances better use of clinical skills and increases access t...
Objective: Toothache was reported as a reason for school absenteeism, sleeping difficulties, loss of appetite, and seeking dental treatment among children. These represented some impacts of dental problems on health,...
Objective To observe the clinical therapeutic efficacy of acupuncture in trea ng toothache. Methods Acupuncture was carried out at Nǚxī(女膝 EX),Tàichōng(太冲 LR 3),Nèi ng(内庭 ST 44),Tàixī(太溪 KI 3),H...
Although pain of dental origin is the most common orofacial pain, other non-odontogenic pains can af-fect the orofacial region and occasionally mimic den-tal pain. These non-odontogenic pains may pose a diagnostic dil...
In the recent years ,the author has adopted the acupoint selection based on syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine for treatment of 168cases of toothache , achieving a good therapeutic effect.The rep...