From Volume 43, Issue 5, June 2016 | Pages 448-460
This last in a series of 10 papers aims to provide the dental and medical teams with an update in headache conditions relevant to dentistry and medicine. Headache is the most common presenting symptom for patients presenting to A&E departments.
Headache is a common symptom with numerous aetiologies (Table 1). It is estimated that one in every five consultations with a neurologist is because of headache. Globally, it is estimated that 46% of the worldwide population have an active headache disorder. The World Health Organization has ranked headache as one of the top 10 most disabling disorders for both genders.1
As these conditions are so common and will often be a co-presenting factor in dental patients presenting with orofacial pain, it is important for dentists to be able to identify the three main groups of common headaches (migraine, cluster and tension headaches) (Figure 1). Dentists can also play an important role in identifying possible sinister headaches and appropriately refer their patients for urgent care. Table 2 offers a summary for differentiating between these different headaches.
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