Thermal pain in teeth: Electrophysiology governed by thermomechanics

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Min ^a   Genin, Guy M ^b   Xu, Feng ^a   Lu, Tianjian J ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

bioheat transfer; biomechanics; electrophysiology; hierarchical multiscale models; pain transduction; teeth

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; NEURONS;

BIO-HEAT TRANSFER; COUPLED THERMO-MECHANICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; MULTISCALE MODELS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MODEL; PAIN TRANSDUCTION; TEETH;

HEALTH;

EID: 84898772762     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4026912     Document Type: Article

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