Influence of Reported Physical Activity Level and Psychosocial Features on Orofacial Mechanical Sensitivity: A Pilot Study.

Aims: To evaluate the influence of self-reported physical activity level on painful mechanical somatosensory profile and psychosocial characteristics.

Methods: A total of 90 participants, male and female, were divided into three groups based on the frequency, duration, and intensity of physical activity over the last 3 months. The classification followed a modified criterion of the short version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ).

Influence of self-reported physical activity and sleep quality on conditioned pain modulation in the orofacial region.

Objectives: To evaluate the influence of self-reported physical activity and sleep quality on conditioned pain modulation (CPM) in the orofacial region.

Materials And Methods: Ninety healthy participants aged 18-50 years old were evenly distributed according to the level of physical activity into low, moderate, and high level. The classification of physical activity was based on modified criteria of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), considering intensity, duration, and frequency of physical activity.

Direct and tomographic dimensional analysis of the inter-radicular distance and thickness of the vestibular cortical bone in the parasymphyseal region of adult human mandibles.

We calculated the inter-radicular distances between the canine, and first and second premolars, of human mandibles and the thickness of the cortical bone at adjacent sites using computed tomographic (CT) imaging, and assessed the precision of the dimensional assessment made by CT compared with the same measurement made directly with calipers. We examined 100 adult cadaveric dentate human hemimandibles. At the level at which monocortical screws are inserted to place miniplates according to the current technique used to treat mandibular fractures, points A, B, and C referred to the canine, and first and second premolars, and were marked to calculate the level of the CT slice and as the reference for sectioning of the hemimandible.

Lateral cortical bone thickness of human mandibles in region of mental foramen.

Purpose: We sought to verify the cortical thickness and presence of tooth roots and inferior alveolar canal where miniplates are placed using the Champy technique to treat parasymphyseal fractures between the canine and premolar. We also studied these anatomic features at the same level anteriorly and posteriorly to the mental foramen.

Materials And Methods: A total of 80 dry, normal adult dentate human hemimandibles (40 male and 40 female) were studied.