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ArticleFrontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland)2024

Reappraising the psychosomatic approach in the study of "chronic orofacial pain": looking for the essential nature of these intractable conditions.

Akira Toyofuku, Hirofumi Matsuoka, Yoshihiro Abiko

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Article in Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Akira ToyofukuDepartment of Psychosomatic Dentistry, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Tokyo, Japan.
Hirofumi MatsuokaDivision of Disease Control and Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Oral Growth and Development, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Japan.
Yoshihiro AbikoDivision of Oral Medicine and Pathology, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As burning mouth syndrome (BMS) and atypical odontalgia (AO) continue to remain complex in terms of pathophysiology and lack explicit treatment protocol, clinicians are left searching for appropriate solutions. Oversimplification solves nothing about what bothers us in clinical situations with BMS or AO. It is important to treat a complicated phenomenon as complex. We should keep careful observations and fact-finding based on a pragmatic approach toward drug selection and prescription with regular follow-up. We also need to assess the long-term prognosis of treatment with a meticulous selection of sample size and characteristics. Further investigation of BMS and AO from a psychosomatic perspective has the potential to provide new insight into the interface between brain function and "chronic orofacial pain."

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atypical odontalgiaburning mouth syndromechronic orofacial painpsychosomatic oral paintreatment strategy

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PMID38799615
PMCPMC11116715

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