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Aurelio A. Alonso

Aurelio A. Alonso

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology
aurelio.alonso@duke.edu
10207 Cerny Street, Box 3094, Durham, NC 27617

Selected Publications

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Journal Article J Am Dent Assoc · October 2025 Full text Link to item Cite

How does dental sleep medicine fit into the specialty of orofacial pain?: A narrative review.

Journal Article J Am Dent Assoc · June 2025 BACKGROUND: Sleep disturbances can lead to an increase in pain and vice versa. Pain, including orofacial pain, can affect sleep quality, leading to poor health, and poor health can affect sleep quality. TYPES OF STUDIES REVIEWED: The authors examined the l ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Adaptive, Pain Sensitive, and Global Symptoms Clusters: Evidence from a Patient-Based Study.

Journal Article JDR Clin Trans Res · April 2024 OBJECTIVES: The largest epidemiologic study conducted about painful temporomandibular disorders (pTMDs) to date identified 3 clusters of individuals with similar symptoms-adaptive, pain sensitive, and global symptoms-which hold promise as a means of person ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Phenotypic profile clustering pragmatically identifies diagnostically and mechanistically informative subgroups of chronic pain patients.

Journal Article Pain · May 1, 2021 Traditional classification and prognostic approaches for chronic pain conditions focus primarily on anatomically based clinical characteristics not based on underlying biopsychosocial factors contributing to perception of clinical pain and future pain traj ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Hyoid Arch Displacement with Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation.

Journal Article Am J Respir Crit Care Med · September 15, 2017 Full text Link to item Cite

Multifactorial assessment of measurement errors affecting intraoral quantitative sensory testing reliability.

Journal Article Scand J Pain · July 2017 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE (AIMS): Measurement error of intraoral quantitative sensory testing (QST) has been assessed using traditional methods for reliability, such as intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). Most studies reporting QST reliability focused ... Full text Link to item Cite

When static meets dynamic: Comparing cone-beam computed tomography and acoustic reflection for upper airway analysis.

Journal Article Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop · October 2016 INTRODUCTION: Upper airway measurement can be important for the diagnosis of breathing disorders. Acoustic reflection (AR) is an accepted tool for studying the airway. Our objective was to investigate the differences between cone-beam computed tomography ( ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Design and Outcomes of a Comprehensive Care Experience Level System to Evaluate and Monitor Dental Students' Clinical Progress.

Journal Article J Dent Educ · June 2016 A Comprehensive Care Experience Level (CCEL) system that is aligned with Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) standards, promotes comprehensive care and prevention, and addresses flaws observed in previous Relative Value Units (RVU)-based programs has ... Link to item Cite

Dental Students' Learning Experiences and Preferences Regarding Orofacial Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Journal Article J Dent Educ · October 2015 Pain is a global health problem, the effects of which range from diminished quality of life to pain management costs and loss of work and productivity. Pain in the head and neck region is defined as a separate entity: orofacial pain (OFP). However, some gr ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Dental students' perceived level of competence in orofacial pain.

Journal Article J Dent Educ · October 2014 Orofacial pain (OFP) is a group of symptoms affecting a significant portion of the population; inadequate diagnosis and management of these symptoms present a potential detrimental effect on the public's health. It has been suggested that dental schools mu ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Cortical processing of facial tactile stimuli in temporomandibular disorder as revealed by magnetoencephalography.

Journal Article Exp Brain Res · July 2010 We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate the cortical processing of an innocuous facial tactile stimulus in healthy subjects and in a group of subjects suffering from chronic temporomandibular disorder (TMD). Equivalent current dipoles (ECDs) we ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A quantitative evaluation of inflammatory cells in human temporomandibular joint tissues from patients with and without implants.

Journal Article J Oral Maxillofac Surg · April 2009 PURPOSE: Previous studies made only qualitative assessments of immune cell responses to temporomandibular joint (TMJ) implant wear debris. The aim of this study was to perform a quantitative comparison of inflammatory cell types in TMJ tissues with implant ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cortical processing of tactile stimuli applied in quick succession across the fingertips: temporal evolution of dipole sources revealed by magnetoencephalography.

Journal Article Exp Brain Res · August 2008 We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) in 10 healthy human subjects to study cortical responses to tactile stimuli applied to the fingertips of digits 2-5 of the right hand. Each stimulus lasted 50 ms and was produced by air-driven elastic membranes. Four-hu ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Neurovascular pains: implications of migraine for the oral and maxillofacial surgeon.

Journal Article Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am · May 2008 Epidemiologic studies have shown that migraine headaches are a common finding in the general population, often associated with a high degree of disability. Additionally, migraine has a reported comorbidity with other medical conditions, most notably with c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Synchronous neural interactions assessed by magnetoencephalography: a functional biomarker for brain disorders.

Journal Article J Neural Eng · December 2007 We report on a test to assess the dynamic brain function at high temporal resolution using magnetoencephalography (MEG). The essence of the test is the measurement of the dynamic synchronous neural interactions, an essential aspect of the brain function. M ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Case series of four different headache types presenting as tooth pain.

Journal Article J Endod · November 2006 Case reports in the literature discuss various headache disorders that present as pain in the face. The current understanding of neuroanatomy and headache mechanisms suggests that headache pain originates within intracranial structures and is then referred ... Full text Link to item Cite