Correlation of clinical pain symptoms with histopathological changes of the dental pulp: A review

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 779-781

  Ngassapa, D ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; CONTACT SENSITIVITY; NERVE FIBER C; PULPITIS; REVIEW; TOOTH INFECTION; TOOTH PAIN; TOOTH PULP DISEASE; VASODILATATION;

DENTIN; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PULPITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030390359     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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