Di Paolo, Carlo and Serritella, Emanuela and Panti, Fabrizio and Falisi, Giovanni and Manna, Fedele (2014) Heavy metals and pain in the dysfunctional patient. Annali di stomatologia, 5 (2). pp. 41-51. ISSN 1971-1441
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Abstract
The aim of this research is to verify the quality and quantity of heavy metals (HM) of dental origin in TMD patients. A population of 100 subject was studied and divided in two homogeneous groups: Study Group (SG) and Control Group (CG). Organism heavy metals were tested by a spot sampling method in which the first urine of the day, through Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), were analyzed. The results obtained were compared with reference values (RV) of Italian people. Descriptive statistical analysis and student's t-test has been applied (statistical significance for p > 0.05). The SG presented the absolute highest levels of HM compared to the CG (p=0.787). As regards the relation between pain and HM, the subjects that refer “severe/very severe” values of pain present the highest levels of HM in urines. The obtained results seem to highlight a possible direct proportionality between the level of pain the increase of the concentration of heavy metals in all the examined groups and subgroups.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | heavy metals, pain, TMD |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2016 17:25 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2016 17:25 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/11435 |
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