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Odontogenic Pain
Odontogenic pain has its source in the pulp-dentinal complex and/or periapical tissues. Odontogenic pain may result from tissue injury or pathology...
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Nociplastic Orofacial Pain
Nociplastic orofacial pain is a complex category of orofacial pain conditions that often presents as a diagnostic and treatment dilemma. Nociplastic...
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Pain: Basic Concepts
The experience of pain is a subjective one and more than a simple sensation. Pain may be broadly classified into physiological and pathological pain....
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Cardiogenic Orofacial Pain
Cardiogenic orofacial pain is pain originating from the heart that may refer to the neck, mandible, dentoalveolar and craniofacial structures...
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Neurovascular Orofacial Pain
The most common cephalalgia of neurovascular origin is migraine. These predominantly manifest in the orbital and frontal regions but may also spread...
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Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain
Persistent idiopathic facial pain (PIFP) is a poorly understood chronic orofacial pain condition. Patients report varying qualities of persistent...
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Pain
Pain is a common experience, and dental procedures are often associated with pain. Pain is a complex and subjective experience, associated with...
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Persistent Idiopathic Dentoalveolar Pain
Persistent idiopathic dentoalveolar pain (PIDAP) is a unilateral intraoral dentoalveolar pain that recurs daily for more than 2 h per day for greater...
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Dental Pain, Mechanism of Action
The term dental pain refers to dentinal pain associated with sensory activation of the dentine as a result of caries lesion or trauma and pulpal pain...
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Sinus Disorder-Related Orofacial Pain
Sinus disorder-related orofacial pain is pain originating from a disorder in the paranasal sinuses and the nasal cavity that may refer to the...
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Pain-Related Temporomandibular Disorders
Pain-related temporomandibular disorders are a spectrum of disorders affecting the temporomandibular joint and its supporting structures; broadly...
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Chronic temporomandibular disorder pain patients with a history of neuropathic pain treatment: a narrative research on their diagnosis and treatment history
The aims of this qualitative research were (1) to gain more insight in the diagnostic and treatment history of patients with chronic...
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Post-Traumatic Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain
Neuropathy may develop as a consequence of disease or damage to the somatosensory nervous system and when accompanied by pain, is termed painful...
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Headache Disorders Related to Orofacial Pain
Headache and orofacial pain are common conditions that affect the general population. Due to the complex shared neuronal mechanisms, headache...
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Psychosocial Considerations for Orofacial Pain
In patients presenting with orofacial pain, psychosocial factors such as depression, anxiety, somatoform disorders, catastrophising and fear...
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Constant Unilateral Facial Pain with Additional Attacks
Constant unilateral facial pain with additional attacks (CUFPA) is an idiopathic orofacial pain that presents without cranial autonomic features. As...
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Acupressure versus NSAID for relief of orthodontic pain
AimTo compare ibuprofen and acupressure for pain relief after insertion of elastomeric orthodontic separators.
Materials and methodsA randomized...
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Introduction to Pain
This book is intended to provide a wide overview on orofacial pain for dental and medical teams. Both acute and chronic orofacial conditions relevant...
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Trigeminal neuralgia and trigeminal neuropathic pain
It is very important that the dental team are aware of the varied presentations of pain in the mouth, face and other parts of the trigeminal region...
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Paradigms matter: why persistent pain is different and how dentists can help
Dental professionals often expect, and are used to treating, pain that has a clear, organic and likely pathological cause. Patients visiting the...