title: [Psychosomatics of the orofacial system].
abstract: The orofacial region, an area of human privacy of special personality relevance with overproportional cortical representation, appears to be particularly predisposed for a large number of different functional and somatoform disorders that affect both patients with and without teeth. In part there are marked differences as to their prevalence in male and female patients, with females being affected more often. These disorders lead in many cases to massive impainment of the patients' psycho-physical well-being, at times involving substantial consequential somatic damage. As a result of apparent shortcomings in primary care and preliminary diagnostics, many patients typically look back on long and complicated case histories with numerous negative examinations and futile attempts at somatic therapies and/or surgical interventions. The present paper aims, amongst others, at raising sensitivity for psychosomatic aspects in the dental medicine sector.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kreyer
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D016854:Dental Anxiety; D017266:Dental Prosthesis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009066:Mouth, Edentulous / Q000523:psychology*; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014076:Tooth Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D016388:Tooth Loss / Q000523:psychology