Orofacial Disease: Update for the Clinical Team: 9. Orofacial Pain

From Volume 26, Issue 9, November 1999 | Pages 410-417

Authors

Crispian Scully

CBE, DSc, DChD, DMed (HC), Dhc(multi), MD, PhD, PhD (HC), FMedSci, MDS, MRCS, BSc, FDS RCS, FDS RCPS, FFD RCSI, FDS RCSEd, FRCPath, FHEA

Bristol Dental Hospital, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol BS1 2LY, UK

Articles by Crispian Scully

Stephen Porter

MD, PhD, FDS RCS, FDS RCSE

Professor, Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care Sciences and International Centre for Excellence in Dentistry, University of London

Articles by Stephen Porter

Abstract

Orofacial pain, the main reason why many patients seek dental advice, usually has a local cause—primarily the sequelae of dental caries—but a wide range of diseases, particularly neurological, psychogenic and vascular disorders, can cause orofacial pain. This article will discuss disorders that can present with pain and the neurological, psychogenic and vascular causes of orofacial pain.

The first article in this series made several general observations on diagnosis and treatment which should be borne in mind in relation to the material presented here.

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