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Persistent dentoalveolar pain: the patient's experience.

Justin Durham¹, Catherine Exley, Mike T John

¹Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK. Justin.Durham@ncl.ac.uk

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Researchers identified key patient experiences to develop diagnostic tools for persistent dentoalveolar pain disorder (PDAP). Findings highlight common pain characteristics and challenges in diagnosis, aiding in creating a new self-report instrument.

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Area of Science:

Oral Medicine
Pain Research
Patient-Reported Outcomes

Background:

Persistent dentoalveolar pain disorder (PDAP) lacks comprehensive diagnostic tools.
Understanding patient experiences is crucial for developing effective assessment methods.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore patient experiences with PDAP.
To identify themes for a diagnostic item pool.
To inform the development of a self-report instrument for PDAP.

Main Methods:

Purposive sampling of PDAP patients (n=20).
Semi-structured interviews conducted and transcribed verbatim.
Inductive, iterative data analysis until saturation.

Main Results:

Recurring themes included pain duration/magnitude, complex descriptors, and exacerbating factors.
Patients reported difficulty in history taking and localized, deep, or pressure-like pain.
Identified themes provide potential items for a diagnostic instrument.

Conclusions:

Common patient experiences were identified as potential diagnostic items.
These findings contribute to the limited existing item pool for PDAP.
The identified items will facilitate testing for an adjunctive self-report diagnostic instrument.