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Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
|February 1, 1994
Abstract:
Sensibility and pain thresholds were measured in 27 patients with myofascial pain and craniomandibular disorders and in 19 controls. A monopolar electric stimulator with increasing direct current values was used to record pain and sensibility thresholds in the lower incisors. Patients with myofascial pain had a tendency towards lower sensibility and lower pain thresholds than the controls, although the differences were not statistically significant.
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