Orofacial pain
Subtitle: a guide to medications and management
By: Glenn T. Clark, Raymond A. Dionne
Contributors: Dionne, Raymond
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780813815596
Subjects: Drug therapy; Prevention & control; Analgesics; Facial Pain; Therapeutic use; Facial Neuralgia; Chronic Disease
Description: "Pain is a preoccupation in dentistry, but the dentist's role has expanded beyond the treatment of dental pain to being one of the most involved in the treatment of orofacial pain.  Orofacial Pain: A Guide to Medications and Management guides readers through the rational use of medications for the treatment of chronic orofacial pain, including oral, injectable and topical medications.  It also provides relevant information about treatment choices for managing neuropathic and musculoskeletal pain, headache and uncommon orofacial pain disorders"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The top 30 chronic painful diseases, disorders, and dysfunctions that occur in the orofacial region / Glenn T. Clark; title: Top 60 most important medications used in an OFP treatment center / Glenn T. Clark; title: Non-opioid analgesics, salicylates, NSAIDs, and corticosteroids for chronic pain / Raymond A. Dionne, Glenn T. Clark; title: Opioids for chronic orofacial pain with a focus on non-malignant chronic pain / Glenn T. Clark, Steven H. Richeimer; title: Nocebo responsive patients and topical pain control agents used for orofacial and mucosal pain / Glenn T. Clark; title: Anti-convulsants agents used for neuropathic pain including trigeminal neuralgia / Glenn T. Clark, Antonia Teruel; title: Skeletal muscle relaxants and anti-spasticity drugs for orofacial pain disorders / Glenn Clark, Soma Sahai-Srivastava; title: Psychopharmacologic agents (antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, and psychostimulants) used in chronic pain / Glenn T. Clark ... [et al.]; title: Anti-bacterial agents as analgesics in chronic pain / Satish Kumar, Glenn T. Clark, Raymond A. Dionne; title: Using oral medications, infusions, and injections for differential diagnosis of orofacial pain / Saravanan Ram, Satish Kumar, Glenn T. Clark; title: Interventional therapy and injected agents for orofacial pain and spasm (including botulinum toxin) / Glenn T. Clark, Alan Stiles; title: Treatment for oral mucositis and non-infectious, non-neoplastic oral ulcerations / Satish Kumar, Antonia Teruel, Glenn T. Clark; title: Management of orofacial pain and other co-morbidities in oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal cancer patients / Saravanan Ram, Glenn T. Clark; title: Burning mouth syndrome : an update on diagnosis and treatment methods / Piedad Suarez Durall, Glenn T. Clark; title: Headaches with a focus on chronic daily HA medications / Soma Sahai-Srivastava, Glenn Clark; title: Differential diagnosis and management of masticatory myogenous pain and dysfunction / Glenn T. Clark; title: Diagnosing and managing chronic trigeminal neuropathy / Glenn T. Clark; title: Temporomandibular joint arthritis : implications, diagnosis, and management / Antonia Teruel, Jack S. Broussard Jr., Glenn T. Clark; title: Five oral motor disorders : habitual tooth clenching and other involuntary oral motor disorders / Glenn T. Clark, Saravanan Ram; title: Diagnosis and treatment of TMJ internal derangements / Glenn T. Clark.