Relationship Between Electrical Pain Tolerance Threshold of Alveolar Ridge and Individual Attributes

Nihon University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Intraoral Pain Threshold

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02474030

EC 13-12-003-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted with an aim to know how individual attributes associated to intraoral Pain Tolerance Threshold. The hypotheses were that the Pain Tolerance Threshold associated to age, sex, prosthodontic oral condition evaluated by the Eichner Index, and psychological state evaluated by the Profile of Mood States.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• not pacemaker wearers

Exclusion criteria

• general health problems that could affect the measurement of nerve activity a lack of understanding of written or spoken Japanese