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Orofacial pain – troll and control: five topics on clinical problems
Author(s) -
Helee Berit
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
dental traumatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.82
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1600-9657
pISSN - 1600-4469
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-9657.1988.tb00303.x
Subject(s) - etiology , anxiety , orofacial pain , variety (cybernetics) , depression (economics) , medicine , psychology , clinical psychology , physical therapy , psychiatry , computer science , artificial intelligence , economics , macroeconomics
Pain is etymologically combined with penalty, emotionally with anxiety and depression, and physiologically with inflammatory processes and other kinds of pressure augmentation in the tissues. Pain is a subjective experience that cannot be measured or “objectively” verified by other individuals. Reactions to pain, however, can be registered by others. Pain in the orofacial area may have several etiological explanations. Since the functional pattern of the area is multi‐faceted, persisting pain in the area most likely has a multi‐factorial background, and also a variety of effects. Treatment should be made considering delicate diagnostical distinctions. A thorough clinical examination contains lots of treatment components. This paper discusses some psychological factors in the diagnosis and treatment of orofacial pain.