Dentistry
Dental pain? Reach for the anti-inflammatories, not the antibiotics
Dental pain can be very serious and sometimes people need urgent pain relief before they can get to a dentist.
Apr 06, 2020
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News tagged with facial pain
Neuroscience
Size matters! The neuroanatomy of trigeminal neuralgia's treatment response
A new study published in the journal Cephalalgia, the official journal of the International Headache Society, shows unprecedented data regarding the neuroanatomical influence on the treatment response of patients with trigeminal ...
Jan 24, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Your healthcare provider's expectations on whether a treatment works may impact its effectiveness
If a doctor expects a treatment to be successful, a patient may experience less pain and have better outcomes, according to a new Dartmouth study published in Nature Human Behaviour. The findings reveal how social interactions ...
Oct 21, 2019
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Neuroscience
It's not just a pain in the head—facial pain can be a symptom of headaches too
A new study finds that up to 10 percent of people with headaches also have facial pain. The study is published in the August 21, 2019, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Aug 21, 2019
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Neuroscience
Defective potassium channels cause headache, not body pain
Defective potassium channels involved in pain detection can increase the chance of developing a headache and could be implicated in migraines, according to research in mice published in eNeuro.
Jul 15, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Patients with facial pain report most benefit from self-care techniques
While oral appliances such as splints and bite guards are the most common treatment for facial pain from temporomandibular disorders (TMD), patients rate them as less helpful than self-care treatments, such as jaw exercises ...
Feb 04, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds orgasm face and pain face are not the same
A team of researchers from the UK and Spain has found evidence showing that contrary to popular belief, the orgasm face is not the same as the pain face. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Neuroscience
Why head and face pain causes more suffering
Hate headaches? The distress you feel is not all in your—well, head. People consistently rate pain of the head, face, eyeballs, ears and teeth as more disruptive, and more emotionally draining, than pain elsewhere in the ...
Nov 13, 2017
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Surgery
Doctors prescribing too many opioids after nose jobs
(HealthDay)—Could some patients recovering from a nose job get a problem they didn't bargain for?
Nov 09, 2017
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Pediatrics
Medicine, engineering researchers use facial expression software to help measure pain felt by newborns
For generations, nurses tending to newborns have been able to tell the subtle difference between a baby's cry of hunger and that of pain.
Mar 27, 2017
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