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Ear pain, also known as earache or otalgia, is pain in the ear. [1] [2] Primary ear pain is pain that originates from the ear. Secondary ear pain is a type of referred pain, meaning that the source of the pain differs from the location where the pain is felt. Most causes of ear pain are non-life-threatening.
Sometimes TMD pain can radiate or be referred from its cause (i.e. the TMJ or the muscles of mastication) and be felt as headaches, earache or toothache. [12] Due to the proximity of the ear to the temporomandibular joint, TMJ pain can often be confused with ear pain. [23]
You don’t remember your first toothache, but your parent might. Later, your baby teeth fell out and adult teeth broke through. Tooth Pain: Symptoms, Risks, and What to Do If You Have Painful Teeth
Local and distant structures (such as ear, brain, carotid artery, or heart) can also refer pain to the teeth. [35]: 80, 81 Other non-dental causes of toothache include myofascial pain (muscle pain) and angina pectoris (which classically refers pain to the lower jaw). Very rarely, toothache can be psychogenic in origin. [10]: 57–58
After all, a toothache can be a sign that something more serious is happening with your teeth and gums. "Cavities, gum disease and tooth abscess are the most common causes of pain in the mouth ...
Symptoms of ATN may overlap with a pain disorder occurring in teeth called atypical odontalgia (literal meaning "unusual tooth pain"), with aching, burning, or stabs of pain localized to one or more teeth and adjacent jaw. The pain may seem to shift from one tooth to the next, after root canals or extractions. In desperate efforts to alleviate ...
Tooth decay may cause pulpitis (toothache) to occur in the same region, and this may cause pulp necrosis and the formation of a periapical abscess associated with either tooth. Food can also become stuck between the wisdom tooth and the tooth in front, termed food packing, and cause acute inflammation in a periodontal pocket when the bacteria ...
"Severe throbbing pain in the tooth without major pathology" (IASP definition in the "Classification of Chronic Pain", listing AO as "tooth pain not associated with lesions"). [20] "pain and hypersensitive teeth in the absence of detectable pathology". [3] "pain of an unidentifiable cause that is perceived to be originating in a tooth or teeth ...