A 6-year clinical assessment of electronic facial thermography

Dentomaxillofacial Radiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 247-255

  Gratt, B M ^a   Graff Radford, S B ^b   Shetty, V ^a   Solberg, W K ^a   Sickles, E A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial pain; Temperature; Thermography; Toothache

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MAXILLA SINUSITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; THERMOGRAPHY; TOOTH FRACTURE; TOOTH PAIN; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ADULT; CRACKED TOOTH SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUSITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS; THERMOGRAPHY; TOOTHACHE; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 0030275959     PISSN: 0250832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/dmfr.25.5.9161178     Document Type: Article

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