Associations between Pain Severity, Clinical Findings, and Endodontic Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study
CE Hours: 1.0
Description: Thorough pain assessment and thermal and mechanical testing are the primary diagnostic tools used to assess the status of pulp and periapical tissues in teeth with potential endodontic pathology. This study evaluated predictors of acute odontogenic pain to better understand the relationship between endodontic pain, clinical testing, endodontic disease, and diagnoses.
- Investigate which demographic, clinical and radiographic factors predict the intensity of pre-operative odontogenic pain due to pulpal/periapical diseases.
- Evaluate whether different mechanical testing (percussion, palpation) capture different aspects/stages of endodontic pathology.
- Investigate if mechanical hypersensitivity might be due to peripheral and/or central sensitization caused by damaged sensory afferents of the pulp and/or periapical tissues.
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LockedOzge Erdogan, DDS
Ozge graduated from Yeditepe University Dental School, Turkey and completed endodontic residency training at Hacettepe University, Turkey. During residency, she treated patients with excruciating toothache on a daily basis. This experience motivated her for pain research. She worked as a full-time instructor at NYU College of Dentistry, and was involved in clinical pain studies. In hopes of better understanding the underlying mechanisms of dental pain and its relationship with dental infection, she decided to go back to being a student, one more time. She completed a Doctor of Medical Sciences, co-mentored by Dr. Jennifer Gibbs and Dr. Isaac Chiu, in the study of how sensory neurons of dental pulp modulate host innate immune response during bacteria induced dental infection. Ozge is now a research fellow at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She teaches at the AGE Endodontics clinic and practices limited to endodontics.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Matthew Malek, D.D.S.
Dr. Malek received his certificate in the specialty of endodontics from NYU Dentistry in 2011. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and currently the Director of the Advanced Education Program in Endodontics at NYU and practices endodontics in private practice in Manhattan, New York.
He is involved with several research projects which focus on pain, Regenerative Endodontics, and External Invasive Resorption of the root which he has the most interest. He lectures frequently to local, national, and international communities on the topic of resorption. Dr. Malek is the faculty winner of the Foundation of Endodontics Spring 2022 Competitive Research Proposal for his research on External Invasive Resorption. Dr. Malek is the author/co-author of several peer-review articles and chapters in prominent endodontic journals and text books.
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I declare that I have no proprietary, financial, or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service, course, and/or company, or in any firm beneficially associated therewith, that will be discussed or considered during the proposed presentation.
Jennifer L. Gibbs, MS, DDS, PhD
Dr. Jennifer Gibbs is the program director for endodontics at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Her body of research mainly comprises investigating the neurobiology of peripheral sensory afference, focusing on pain as an endpoint.
Disclosure(s): Odne: Grant/Research Support (Terminated, July 1, 2024)