[Quality and topography of head and face pain in patients with dysfunction pain syndrome]

264 patients with the dysfunction-pain-syndrome (DPS) and with headache were examined in finding characteristic pain quality, pain intensity and pain locations. With the 24 adjective word list we could find 9 special adjectives for the Patients with the DPS. With the pain intensity test we found that 30% of the patients had very strong pains. Out of the pain location list the main locations were the area in front of the ears, the temples, the forehead, the area around the eyes and the upper jaw. This shows that all patients had chronic pains.