title: Sensibility threshold in patients with masticatory muscle pain.
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.
authors.affiliation: School of Stomatology, Beijing Medical University, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hampf
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017271:Craniomandibular Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003791:Dental Pulp Test; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008410:Masticatory Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009209:Myofascial Pain Syndromes / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017288:Pain Threshold / Q000502:physiology*; D013705:Temporomandibular Joint Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D014098:Toothache / Q000503:physiopathology*