Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
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Community Dent Oral Epidemiol · Oct 2008
The consequences of orofacial pain symptoms: a population-based study in Hong Kong.
To investigate the impacts associated with orofacial pain symptoms among adult Chinese people in Hong Kong. Associations between impacts, pain characteristics and professional treatment seeking behaviour were explored. ⋯ The adverse impact of orofacial pain on the well-being of the adult population of Hong Kong was substantial. Despite this, treatment seeking was low with a high level of untreated orofacial pain symptoms.