To tame the pain?

Compend Contin Educ Dent

Clinical Pharmacology Unit, National Institute of Dental Research in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Published: April 1998

Pain is still one of the most common reasons given by patients for avoiding dental care. Dental pain was identified as one of the most common pain complaints a national survey of pain in the US population. Although pain associated with dentistry encompasses intraoperative pain and pathologic pain as a result of dental neglect, it is likely that some of the aversion toward dentistry is a result of pain that occurs in the postoperative period.

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