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Clinical examination of patients with orofacial pain
Author(s) -
Heløe Berit
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
dental traumatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.82
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1600-9657
pISSN - 1600-4469
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-9657.1988.tb00312.x
Subject(s) - orofacial pain , medicine , physical examination , dentistry , physical therapy , surgery
A thorough clinical examination of patients with orofacial pain is of paramount importance. The examination is time‐consuming, but is usually fully rewarding in that it may prevent unnecessary or incorrect and often irreversible treatment, and clarify to the clinician and hopefully to the patient the nature of the patient's problem. Only then may proper treatment be rendered. In this context it should be noted that a skillfully performed examination in these patients in itself provides valuable and effective treatment, especially when muscular dysfunction is the primary cause of the pain.