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Pilot study_Jaw Muscle Metabolic and Brain-Derived Phenotypes of Chronic TMD Pain

Status: Recruiting
The goal of this study is to learn more about a new way of gathering information about a person’s jaw muscle pain – taking scans of the jaw muscles while a person bites down on a special device. It is hoped that the information learned in this study will help the study team to design a bigger study on this new way of learning about jaw muscle pain, which may lead to better, more individualized treatments for jaw muscle pain for future patients.
Sex: Male or Female
Age Group: 18 years and over
Inclusion Criteria:
• age between 18-74 years
• pain-free participants OR chronic jaw pain ( > 3 months),
• have a minimum set of teeth present
Exclusion Criteria:
• certain medical conditions (examples: heart disease, diabetes, autism, trigeminal neuralgia)
• any MRI contraindications (examples: metal implants, claustrophobia)
• left-handed only
Conditions:
Dentistry
Keywords:
Chronic Jaw Pain, Functional Brain Imaging, Temporomandibular Disorders, TMJ
Study Contact: Lauren Huffman - huffm052@umn.edu
Principal Investigator: Estephan Moana-Filho
IRB Number: STUDY00020619