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Beyond traditional treatments: vagal nerve stimulation for painful temporomandibular disorders.

Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · Nuwailati R, Darrow DP, Nixdorf DR · 2026-07-23

A case series of three patients with treatment-resistant temporomandibular disorder pain found that non-invasive vagal nerve stimulation combined with multimodal treatment was associated with improvements in pain intensity, disability, and psychosocial outcomes.

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