Clinical characteristics and diagnosis of atypical odontalgia: Implications for dentists

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-228

  Ram, Saravanan ^a   Teruel, Antonia ^a   Kumar, Satish K S ^a   Clark, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical odontalgia; Chronic trigeminal neuropathy; Phantom tooth pain

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449116929     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2009.0136     Document Type: Article

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