EC Dental Science

Dental pain is usually derived from pathology of the teeth gingivae and adjacent bone. Recorded here are reports of unexpected oro-dentally related symptoms which preceded coronary thrombosis, CNS stroke, herpes zoster, phantom dental pain, the arrest of progressive blindness and brain cancer.

 Keywords: Pain; Stroke; Coronary; Blindness; Herpes; Oral Malodor; Phantom; Varicella-Zoster

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