[Wanderers in search of Utopia. Experience and anticipation of patients with orofacial pain].
Orofacial pain is a source of misery, especially when it is persistent. The odds are that it will transmute into chronic atypical facial pain. As it takes a long time before the right diagnosis has been made, the patients find themselves wandering off the right track and get lost in the maze of medical and paramedical attendants. The magic spell to help these weary wanderers professionally runs: multidisciplinary approach.
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D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D018710:Pain Clinics; D010348:Patient Care Team