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Serum creatine kinase studies in mandibular pain dysfunction
Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
|January 1, 1984
Abstract:
A biochemical test for muscle damage (serum creatine kinase estimation) was used to investigate twenty-six normal subjects, nine normal subjects following experimental bruxism and twenty-seven patients suffering from mandibular pain dysfunction. No significant differences in serum creatine kinase levels were detected between any of the groups.
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