title: Conduction velocity of the human inferior alveolar nerve: a preliminary report.
abstract: This preliminary report describes a technique to consistently record electrophysiological signals from the uninjured inferior alveolar nerves of human subjects. Bilateral recordings were obtained from 15 consecutive human volunteers. The mean conduction velocity was 67.6 m/s, with no differences shown for right or left sides or gender. Conduction velocity testing could offer a new objectivity in the clinical study of the inferior alveolar nerve, aiding in the documentation, diagnosis, management, and follow-up of the sometimes complex neural lesions that oral and maxillofacial surgeons routinely see.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Colin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008340:Mandibular Nerve / Q000502:physiology*; D009431:Neural Conduction; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011930:Reaction Time; D015203:Reproducibility of Results