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Cortical Activation Resulting from Painless Vibrotactile Dental Stimulation Measured by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

¹ Center for Dental and Oral Medicine and Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery, Clinic for Masticatory Disorders and Complete Dentures, ³ University Hospital Balgrist and ⁴ Institute of Neuropsychology, University of Zürich, Plattenstrasse 11, CH-8028 Zürich, Switzerland; ² Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; and ⁵ Institute of Biomedical Engineering, ETH & University of Zürich, Switzerland;

View larger version (97K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Stimulation device. Clear plastic tubes (1) attached to the dental splint (2) with red GC acrylic resin (3) for guidance of the orange stimulation rod (4), which was connected to the pneumatically driven stimulation device (not shown).

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Schematic representation of paradigm. The Fig. depicts one day as an example. Four quadrants were stimulated consecutively. Within each quadrant, 4 different teeth were stimulated, as shown. Duration of the stimulation and rest epochs was 9 sec each.

View larger version (129K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 3. fMRI coronal slices. These slices cover the three most activated clusters to depict the distribution and size of the group activation overlaid on a representative brain of the MNI series. The numbers for each slice indicate the y coordinate in reference to the MNI coordinate system.

Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 83, No. 10, 757-761 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/154405910408301004


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