title: [Oral pain].
abstract: Pain, a major symptom of stomatological disease, usually leads to a specialist consultation. Most commonly it is caused by dental caries and differs in nature and in intensity according to the stage of disease: dentinitis, pulpitis, desmodontitis and dental abscess. Added to this is peridental pain and the pre- and post-operative pains related to these diseases. Almost all oral-maxillary pathology is painful, be it boney such as in osteomyelitis and fractures, mucosal in gingivo-stomatitis and aphthous ulcers, or tumourous. However, besides the "multidisciplinary" facial pains such as facial neuralgia and vascular pain, two pain syndromes are specific to stomatology: pain of the tempero-mandibular joint associated with problems of the bite and glossodynia, a very common somatic expression of psychological problems.
authors.affiliation: Clinique de chirurgie maxillo-faciale et de stomatologie, Groupe hospitalier La Pitié-La Salpêtrière 75651 Paris.
authors.forename: Lotfi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Benslama
mesh_terms: D003731:Dental Caries / Q000150:complications; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000150:complications; D005926:Glossalgia / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013577:Syndrome; D013705:Temporomandibular Joint Disorders / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Douleurs buccales.