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toothache

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DiseaseQ143925· pop 53· linked from 222 articles

Also known as odontalgia, odontalgy

OverviewAI-generated

Toothache is a medical condition associated with primary occlusal trauma. The term is linked to the ontology identifier SYMP_0000438 and has a dedicated category on Wikimedia Commons.

Research on toothache is extensive, with 4,483 records available in PubMed and 215 entries listed on ClinicalTrials.gov. The condition is referenced by 222 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 9 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, Medline, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Medical condition (new).name
Toothache
Medical condition (new).image
File:Address to the toothache.jpg
Medical condition (new).caption
''"Thou hell o' a' diseases"'' – William Hole's illustration for Robert Burns' poem "Address to the Toothache" (1897, poem c. 1786).
Medical condition (new).synonyms
Odontalgia, dentalgia, odontodynia, odontogenic pain
Medical condition (new).field
Dentistry

via Wikipedia infobox

Health references

ICD-10
K08.81 — Primary occlusal trauma
Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine (ICD-10-CM · MedlinePlus). Not medical advice.

Research

4,483 papers

via PubMed

~54 min read

Encyclopedic overview

34 sections
Contents
  • Causes
  • Dental
  • Pulpal
  • Pulpitis
  • Dentin hypersensitivity
  • Periodontal
  • Apical periodontitis
  • Food impaction
  • Periodontal abscess
  • Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
  • Pericoronitis
  • Occlusal trauma
  • Alveolar osteitis
  • Combined pulpal-periodontal
  • Dental trauma and cracked tooth syndrome
  • Periodontic-endodontic lesion
  • Non-dental
  • Pathophysiology
  • Diagnosis
  • Symptoms
  • Examination
  • Investigations
  • Differential diagnoses
  • Prevention
  • Management
  • Pulpitis and its sequalae
  • Dental abscesses
  • Antibiotics
  • Prognosis
  • Epidemiology
  • History, society and culture
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

Toothaches, also known as dental pain or tooth pain, is pain in the teeth or their supporting structures, caused by dental diseases or pain referred to the teeth by non-dental diseases. When severe it may impact sleep, eating, and other daily activities.

Common causes include inflammation of the pulp (usually in response to tooth decay, dental trauma, or other factors), dentin hypersensitivity, apical periodontitis (inflammation of the periodontal ligament and alveolar bone around the root apex), dental abscesses (localized collections of pus), alveolar osteitis ("dry socket", a possible complication of tooth extraction), acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (a gum infection), and temporomandibular disorder.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “toothache” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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