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1Clinical Pharmacology Unit, National Institute of Dental Research in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry (Jamesburg, N.J. : 1995)
|July 10, 1998
Abstract:
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.