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Atypical orofacial pain disorders: a study of diagnostic subtypes
1University of Minnesota, School of Dentistry, 515 Delaware Street, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Frict001@umn.edu
Current Review of Pain
|September 22, 2000
Abstract:
Atypical facial pain is a persistent pain in the face or intraoral region that does not fit into the diagnostic criteria associated with specific orofacial pain disorders. This article presents the results of a study, which showed that in most cases of presumed atypical facial pain, there is a specific physical diagnosis or multiple diagnoses that causes the persistent pain. These difficult to diagnose disorders are reviewed with discussion of future research that is needed in this area.