Facial Pain
"Facial Pain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Pain in the facial region including orofacial pain and craniofacial pain. Associated conditions include local inflammatory and neoplastic disorders and neuralgic syndromes involving the trigeminal, facial, and glossopharyngeal nerves. Conditions which feature recurrent or persistent facial pain as the primary manifestation of disease are referred to as FACIAL PAIN SYNDROMES.
| Descriptor ID |
D005157
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.617.203 C23.888.592.612.330
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Facial Pain" by people in Profiles.
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Roeber B, Wallace DP, Rothe V, Salama F, Allen KD. Evaluation of the effects of the VibraJect attachment on pain in children receiving local anesthesia. Pediatr Dent. 2011 Jan-Feb; 33(1):46-50.