Open Access2020: Renewing the Paradigms for Orofacial Pain
Author(s) -
Daniel ChavarríaBolaños,
Amaury PozosGuillén,
Mauricio Montero-Aguilar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
odovtos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2215-3411
pISSN - 1659-1046
DOI - 10.15517/ijds.2022.49287
Subject(s) - orofacial pain , perspective (graphical) , psychology , association (psychology) , chronic pain , medicine , physical therapy , psychotherapist , psychiatry , computer science , artificial intelligence
In 2020, two important changes were adapted by the international health community: a new definition of pain and a new classification for orofacial pain conditions. With these changes new tasks and challenges also emerged, and clinicians from several disciplines begun to adopt and reconsidered classic paradigms, and the policies derived from them. This new perspective article, examine the new definition of pain proposed by the International Association for the Study of Pain, and the new International Classification of Orofacial Pain; analyzing the positive impact and further perspectives of these.