Painful dry socket is an unwelcome complication following tooth extraction,1 presenting after approximately 3% of routine extractions and may occur in up to 30% of patients following surgical removal of impacted mandibular third molars.
A new study found that mental illness such as anxiety and depression can also be associated with Medication Overuse Headaches, making this form of headache even more debilitating.
In some patients the pain of migraine originates in the extracranial cranial arteries. This article describes the location and a logical examination sequence of the vessels most frequently involved in migraine pain.
Over the years, there has been a considerable amount of controversy as to whether the vascular component of migraine pain arises from the intracranial or the extracranial vessels or both.