A year of chronic TMPDS: evaluating patients' pain patterns.
In 136 women with TMPDS observed for one year, pain was highly variable. No respondent had a consistent pattern of pain increase or decrease.
Raphael
K G
KG
Columbia University, School of Public Health (epidemiology), New York, N.Y. 10032.
Marbach
J J
JJ
D002908:Chronic Disease; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013706:Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology*