DENTAL PAIN SYNDROMES

-Alveolar osteitis “dry socket”

-Maxillary sinusitis “teeth hurt in maxilla”

-Trigeminal neuralgia: this requires a very special strategy

-Burning mouth/ lip syndrome: some patients have this burning sensation

-TMJ

-Myofascial

-Oral cancer pain: must be managed with narcotics! Its been found that physicians have been under prescribing analgesics for painful conditions such as cancer—the courts side with the patient on this.

-Mandibular fracture

-Post-tooth extraction pain: often used as a pain model to evaluate an analgesic against a placebo

-Central pain: “Causalgia” burning pain often accompanied by trophic skin changes, due to injury of a peripheral nerve.

-Heterotopic pain

-Lancinating pain

-Terebrating pain: “boring” type of pain (like a bore being driven into your skull, not boring as in “lecture is boring”)

Category: Pharmacology Notes