Medically unexplained chronic orofacial pain. Temporomandibular pain and dysfunction syndrome, orofacial phantom pain, burning mouth syndrome, and trigeminal neuralgia.
Orofacial pain syndromes pose a dilemma for physicians. Even when the patient is referred, quality medical care requires that the physician be acquainted with current evidence-based practice. Such practice may be radically different from the traditional view. This article reviews the differential diagnosis and treatment of the most common medically unexplained orofacial syndromes.
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Department of Oral Pathology, Biology and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, USA.
D002908:Chronic Disease; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D005926:Glossalgia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy