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1. Oklješa I, Galić N, Šegović S, Pavelić B, Filipović-Zore I, Anić I. The Prevalence and Type of Pain in Dental Patients. Acta Stomatol Croat. 2004;38(1):7-17.
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   Title in English:	The Prevalence and Type of Pain in Dental Patients
   Title in Croatian:	Čestoća i vrste boli stomatoloških pacijenata
   Type of Article:	original scientific paper
   MeSH:	FACIAL PAIN TOOTHACHE + epidemiology
   Abstract:	Pain is known to be a frequent reason for the patient’s arrival to the dental clinic. The aim of this study was to determine how often patients come to the dental clinic because of toothache or pain in the oral cavity; how high the percentage of acute or chronic pain, and the distribution of the aforementioned pains according to the sex of the patients.Examination of the frequency of pain in dental patients was carried out on a sample of 2,735 subjects during a period of approximately one year. Pain was determined in 16.49% of patients and the remaining 83.51% of patients were without pain. There were slightly more female patients (54%) than male (46%), although correlation between pain and sex of the patients was not statistically significant. The higher number of female patients was the result of the greater number of female patients admitted. With regard to the duration of pain, acute pain was significantly more frequent (around 84%) than chronic pain (around 16%). Within the structure of acute and chronic pain odontalgia was most frequent in 89% of all the acute pains and in 90% of all chronic pains, which was significantly more than all other types of pain. The frequency of acute odontalgia, with respect to the total number of admitted patients, amounted to 12.36% of patients and chronic odontalgia 2.38% of patients.