Case report: an orofacial pain patient with spots on the brain-multiple sclerosis versus central systemic lupus erythematosus
Kim, S.K.; Chang, M.; Merrill, R.
Journal of Orofacial Pain 26(3): 240-243
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 1064-6655 PMID: 22838009 Document Number: 659879
Orofacial pain bridges an important gap between medicine and dentistry. This article presents the case of a man who reported preauricular pain, tinnitus, and vertigo that began after extraction of an impacted third molar and who was sent for evaluation of a possible temporomandibular joint disorder. However, he was subsequently found to have markers and imaging results consistent with recurrent and more centralized lupus and/or multiple sclerosis.