Orofacial Pain and Headache

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Yair Sharav, Rafael Benoliel
Elsevier Health Sciences, 2008 M01 1 - 441 páginas
OROFACIAL PAIN AND HEADACHE is a timely, comprehensive and instructive addition to the pain literature; in particular the important and truly multidisciplinary area of orofacial pain. Based on their extensive clinical experience and a thorough understanding of pain mechanisms specific to the trigeminal system, the editors, Yair Sharav and Rafael Benoliel, have integrated knowledge from the areas of headache and orofacial pain and have succinctly explained common mechanisms involved in the two phenomena, with important implications for pain diagnosis and management.

Internationally renowned editors and contributor teamIntegrated approach to the diagnosis and treatment of oral and facial pain syndromes as well as common primary headaches
A thorough review of the four majorclinical entities of orofacial pain: acute dental, neurovascular, musculoskeletal and neuropathicComprehensive coverage of the pharmacotherapy of acute and chronic painChapters on the psychological, neurosurgical and otolaryngological aspects of orofacial painAn in depth discussion of facial pain and headaches secondary to medical co-morbiditiesExploration of complementary and alternative methods of pain control including acupuncture, food additives and hypnosis
 

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The diagnostic process
1
Anatomy and neurophysiology of orofacial pain
19
Measuring and assessing pain
45
Psychological aspects of chronic orofacial pain
57
Acute orofacial pain
75
Otolaryngological aspects of orofacial pain
91
Masticatory myofascial pain and tensiontype and chronic daily headache
109
Pain and dysfunction of the temporomandibular joint
149
Neuropathic orofacial pain
255
Neurosurgical aspects of orofacial pain
295
Referred and secondary orofacial pain syndromes
305
Orofacial pain in the medically complex patient
321
Pharmacotherapy of acute orofacial pain
349
Pharmacotherapy of chronic orofacial pain
377
Complementary and alternative medicine
407
Index
417

Migraine and possible facial variants neurovascular orofacial pain
193
The trigeminal autonomic cephalgias TACs
225

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