Medically unexplained chronic orofacial pain. Temporomandibular pain and dysfunction syndrome, orofacial phantom pain, burning mouth syndrome, and trigeminal neuralgia

Med Clin North Am. 1999 May;83(3):691-710, vi-vii. doi: 10.1016/s0025-7125(05)70130-9.

Abstract

Orofacial pain syndromes pose a dilemma for physicians. Even when the patient is referred, quality medical care requires that the physician be acquainted with current evidence-based practice. Such practice may be radically different from the traditional view. This article reviews the differential diagnosis and treatment of the most common medically unexplained orofacial syndromes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Chronic Disease
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Facial Pain* / diagnosis
  • Facial Pain* / epidemiology
  • Facial Pain* / therapy
  • Glossalgia* / diagnosis
  • Glossalgia* / epidemiology
  • Glossalgia* / therapy
  • Humans
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia* / diagnosis
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia* / epidemiology
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia* / therapy