The main justification for considering a coronectomy is based upon the assessed risk of IANI related to M3M surgery and its prevention. It is well recognized that, after dry socket, nerve injury is...

This was a prospective study of 112 patients that was carried out over a 3-month period at the Department of Oral Surgery, King's College Hospital (KCH). The selection criteria included patients over...

Sudden-onset headaches are defined as headaches that reach maximum severity within minutes of onset. This type of headache may be the presenting symptom of a number of potentially serious pathologies...

The revised International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-II) describes cluster headache (CH) as a rare primary headache characterized by attacks of severe, strictly unilateral pain which...

Bones contain collagen (protein), calcium and other minerals and each one is made up of a strong inner mesh, known as trabecular bone, and a thick outer shell, known as cortical bone. Trabecular bone...

Eliciting a good clinical history from the patient is essential in diagnosing burning mouth syndrome. Most patients report an increase in pain intensity from morning to night, similar to other...

This is defined as pain that is present one year or longer post-surgical procedure, that is unexplained by local factors and is best described as neuropathic in nature..

Facial pain can be associated with pathological conditions or disorders related to somatic and neurological structures.1 There are a wide range of causes of chronic orofacial pain and these have been...

The management of acute trigeminal pain can be divided into three areas: intra-operative, post-operative and acute symptomatic pain (usually acute infection)..

There have been several attempts to classify chronic orofacial pain (OFP) conditions by pain associations. The most used main categories have either been topographical (odontogenic versus...

The trigeminal nerve supplies general sensory supply to the face, scalp and mouth (Figure 1). A vast proportion of the sensory cortex represents the trigeminal input (over 50%).1.

Pain is defined as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage’.2 This is an over-simplification of the...

The prevention of inferior alveolar nerve injuries during third molar surgery may be possible by:.