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The Social Impact Of Oral And Facial Pain In An Industrial Population, Rosnah Binti Zain Jan 1989

The Social Impact Of Oral And Facial Pain In An Industrial Population, Rosnah Binti Zain

Prof. Dr. Rosnah Binti Zain

The aim of this study is to determine the social impact of oral and facial pain in a sample involving an industrial population. Out of a total of 355 subjects interviewed, nearly one-half claimed to have oral and facial pain in the previous one month prior to the survey. The most common type of pain was that related to hot or cold fluids or sweet things followed by toothache. On the average, the pain lasted for 4.2 days (SD = 4.9) per person in the past one-month. About one in five persons with pain reported that it was severe enough …