A 27-year old male was referred, on a non-urgent basis, to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of a district general hospital, following displacement of the palatal root of his upper left...

A 17-year-old Afro-Caribbean male was referred to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) department at Frenchay Hospital (Bristol, UK) by a general dental practitioner for the surgical removal of a...

Sudden-onset headaches are defined as headaches that reach maximum severity within minutes of onset. This type of headache may be the presenting symptom of a number of potentially serious pathologies...

The revised International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-II) describes cluster headache (CH) as a rare primary headache characterized by attacks of severe, strictly unilateral pain which...

Eliciting a good clinical history from the patient is essential in diagnosing burning mouth syndrome. Most patients report an increase in pain intensity from morning to night, similar to other...

A detailed epidemiological study investigated the incidence and prevalence rates of TN from 1945 until 1984, and found an overall annual incidence rate of 4.7 per 100,000 in the Minnesota, USA,...

The reported prevalence of TMDs in both the general and clinical population varies, and this may be due to differences between studies in diagnostic criteria and their assessment of TMDs.3 Recent...

Metalib was used to access the articles and studies used in this paper. Searching though Swetswise and ScienceDirect produced highly relevant papers. Keywords used include: mandibular third molars,...

The components of coagulation are present within the circulating blood and, in health, remain in an inactivated state until injury is incurred. When the endothelium of a blood vessel is breached,...

This is defined as pain that is present one year or longer post-surgical procedure, that is unexplained by local factors and is best described as neuropathic in nature..

Facial pain can be associated with pathological conditions or disorders related to somatic and neurological structures.1 There are a wide range of causes of chronic orofacial pain and these have been...

If Osler's advice is followed, then the most important part of any examination is the history, to identify the symptoms associated with the condition. For pain of odontogenic origin, there are two...

Radicular cysts are inflammatory in nature and the most common cystic lesions of the jaws, accounting for approximately 60% of all odontogenic cysts.3 Although they can develop in all tooth-bearing...

Remodelling of bone is essential for reshaping of the growing skeleton and healing of bone during injury, for example tooth extraction. Bone remodelling is controlled by systemic and local factors:.

The management of acute trigeminal pain can be divided into three areas: intra-operative, post-operative and acute symptomatic pain (usually acute infection)..