KROK 1 Stomatology 2016 – Question 31 · KROK (Dentistry)
After the traumatic tooth extraction a patient is complaining of severe dull poorly-localized pain in gingiva, body temperature rise up to 37.5°C. The patient has been diagnosed with alveolitis. Specify the kind of pain in this patient:
- A. Visceral
- B. Epicritic
- C. Protopathic
- D. Heterotopic
- E. Phantom
Hint
Focus on the descriptors 'dull' and 'poorly localized' and recall how pain types are classified by the fibres that conduct them and by their quality.
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