A review of the incidence of pain after an operation treatment visit: Part I.
This review presented some typically encountered painful sequellae from routine restorative dental treatment. A brief description of the importance of Tomes' processes and free nerve endings were mentioned also. This review should serve as a background for a clinical study concerning posttreatment pain that will be described in a later article.
D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000379:methods; D003804:Dentin / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009804:Odontoblasts / Q000502:physiology; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014098:Toothache / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology