Engelsk titel: Orofacial pain and jaw dysfunction in general dental care
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Författare:
Alstergren, Per
Email: E-post:%20per.alstergren@mau.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 24
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 19020229
Sammanfattning
The aim of this article is to provide knowledge and simple, hands-on tools to be used in general dentistry when caring for patients with chronic orofacial musculoskeletal pain and jaw dysfunction. The tools should be used to identify, diagnose and treat patients with these quite common conditions. Conditions (and patients) that are not always simple to deal with in general dentistry. However, there are now simple and very effective tools, supported by the scientific litterature, to assist in taking care of these patients in the best possible way.
The article provides knowledge about chronic pain and its consequences as well as descriptions of tools to screen all patients to identify which patients to examine further. It describes the Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC/TMD) diagnostic procedure for clinical diagnosis and assessment of psychosocial factors related to chronic pain. Finally, it discusses guidelines for treatment of these patients, including a tool for assessing if the patient should be treated within general dentistry or if the patient should be referred to a specialist.