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Orofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorders


Phantom and Persistent Tooth Pain
What is it?
Phantom tooth pain (Atypical Odontalgia) is a pain in a tooth or where a tooth once was even after treatment for the diseased tooth.

Signs or Symptoms
People can experience all sorts of symptoms from a tooth that a dentist has told them is perfectly fine.
Teeth affected may have
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Increased sensitivity to thermal stimuli
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Increased biting pain
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Constant or intermittent dull ache.
Cause
The cause can be from a problem to the nerve supplying the tooth (neuropathic pain) or referred pain from a surrounding structure (referred odontalgia). Muscles for example can often cause persistent tooth ache in the absence of any dental disease.

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