Patient with Chronic Orofacial Pain in a Private Dental Office - Diagnostic Dilemmas

Abstract

Patients with chronic orofacial pain (COP), which means pain lasting almost always more than six months and serving no obvious purpose, very often present a quite diagnostic dilemmas. In some instances, this may especially create problem in a private dental office as various variants and manifestations of COP should be treated differently.

Keywords

• chronic orofacial pain
• paroxysmal trigeminal neuralgia
• temporomandibular joint pain dysfunction syndrome
• atypical facial pain