This article aims to provide the practitioner with therapeutic options to treat a broad spectrum of acute and chronic orofacial pain syndromes. The focus will be nonsurgical that the oral health care Show more
This article aims to provide the practitioner with therapeutic options to treat a broad spectrum of acute and chronic orofacial pain syndromes. The focus will be nonsurgical that the oral health care physician can implement to treat this population of patients. The World Health Organization estimated that more than 1 in every 3 people suffers from acute or chronic pain. This article is primarily devoted to medication management once the diagnosis of neuropathic pain, a true trigeminal neuralgia, or a variant of trigeminal neuralgia often referred to as traumatic neuropathic pain or traumatic trigeminal neuralgia. Show less