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

Med Clin North Am. 1999 May;83(3):691-710, vi-vii.
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Medically unexplained chronic orofacial pain. Temporomandibular pain and dysfunction syndrome, orofacial phantom pain, burning mouth syndrome, and trigeminal neuralgia.
Marbach JJ.
Department of Oral Pathology, Biology and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, USA.
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.
PMID: 10386121 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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