Abstract
Pain experienced by patients suffering from pain-producing diseases encountered in an oral surgery practice may be either organic or non-organic in nature. It is clinically important to now the differences of these types of pain. The nature of pain from pericoronitis of the third molars was studied in 140 males and 228 females. The control group consisted of 1, 775 males and 2, 433 females patients suffering from other pain-producing diseases. A questionnaire about their pain was used and items characteristic of pain from third molar pericoronitis were statistically extracted. The properties of pain, such as the specific areas of the organic nature, reserved judgment and non-organic nature, were examined using classification charts of organic and inorganic pains constructed from a pain questionnaire. When the characteristic items of the whole third molar pericoronitis group were examined for specific areas, the pain experienced by the group as a whole was classified as organic pain. In the future, the nature of pain in individual cases of third molar pericoronitis will be analyzed. Research has been planned to examine the actual state of pain and the reasons why pain in third molar pericoronitis, which is of an organic nature, may express non-organic features.
