neck pain/dental caries

A 53-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with the complaint of neck pain and dyspnea. His blood examination revealed increased C-reactive protein and amylase levels. Enhanced computed tomography (CT) images demonstrated a retropharyngeal and a mediastinal low-density area extending to the

Description of a case of metastatic advanced squamous cell lung carcinoma without any symptoms of the original focus. The only complaint of the patient almost throughout the course of the disease was cervical pain. Despite fast clinical course of the disease considerable adaptation of spinal cord to

OBJECTIVE To quantify the effects of using prismatic glasses including optometric correction, on head and neck kinematics, perceived exertion and comfort, during work in the oral cavity. METHODS The study population consisted of forty-five participants. After a basic ergonomic education, baseline

The Dental Practice Act Committee of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain was convened in 1995 for the purpose of studying the scope of temporomandibular disorders (TMD)/orofacial pain and dental practice acts. The committee concluded that the scope of clinical practice of TMD/orofacial pain is

Introduction Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) have a significant impact on the workplace; they have been growing as a problem in our population, especially among healthcare practitioners. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of the condition, evaluate the WMSDs

Most orofacial pain originates in the oral cavity and the surrounding structures. However, advances in the understanding of pain neurophysiology have shown that convergent afferent nociceptive transmissions from non-trigeminal, extraoral sources can enter the trigeminal system. This may confuse the

A review of the literature, with a short discussion of the possible aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of "la maladie de Grisel" is presented with a case report of atlanto-axial subluxation occurring in a child after pharyngoplasty. The occurrence of a "spontaneous" subluxation after pharyngoplasty

A 25-year-old man with complaints of neck pain for approximately 6 months and hearing loss accompanied by a feeling of obstruction of the left ear was presented. Findings from the oral cavity examination showed a retropharyngeal fluctuant, mildly tender mass. A conductive hearing loss of

Foreign body (FB) ingestion is commonly seen in the ear nose and throat (ENT) field, with different presentations and sequelae. FBs can arrest in the upper aerodigestive tract or continue further down into either the airway tract to the bronchus or the digestive tract to the intestines. The pathway

A 32-year-old man developed an extremely rare subdural hematoma after syringosubarachnoid shunting for syringomyelia. He presented with a 4-year history of neck pain and spastic paraparesis resulting from T-7 and T-8 vertebral body fracture suffered in a traffic accident at age 22 years. Magnetic

Although all emergency physicians are familiar with catastrophic causes of free intraperitoneal air, we describe the case of a healthy 26-year-old woman who presented to our emergency department (ED) with a nonsurgical and previously unreported cause of pneumoperitoneum. The patient presented to our

Actinomycosis is a rare, chronic, suppurative, granulomatous infection caused by a group of gram-positive anaerobic bacteria belonging to the natural flora of the oral cavity and gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts. It may involve several organs. This case study refers to pulmonary actinomycosis

OBJECTIVE "La maladie de Grisel" (Grisel's syndrome) is a spontaneously occurring atlantoaxial subluxation with torticollis. We present a case of atlantoaxial subluxation occurring in a 20-year period of pharyngoplasty surgery. The occurrence of a "spontaneous" atlantoaxial subluxation after oral

Eagle's syndrome is an uncommon condition resulting from an elongated styloid process, which causes cervico facial pain, tinnitus and otalgia. A 48-year-old female presented to the clinic with bilateral upper neck pain radiating to the ears with tinnitus for almost one-year duration. Examination of

BACKGROUND Syringohydromyelia associated with supratentorial space-occupying lesion has rarely been reported. We present a 28-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with head and neck pain. Upon examination, there was only left central facial paralisia, with no evidence of