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Healthcare and Orofacial Pain Management

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 4263

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Pessia Friedman-Rubin

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Department of Oral Rehabilitation, The Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6139001, Israel
Interests: temporomandibular joint disorder; bruxism; sleep bruxism; tooth; myalgia; pain
Dr. Yaron Haviv

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Department of Oral Medicine, Sedation and Maxillofacial Imaging, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel
Interests: orofacial pain; dental sleep medicine
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Orofacial pain diagnosis and management are complex processes.

Pain is an experience involving physical, psychological, and emotional aspects, and can have a significant impact on daily function and quality of life.

Therefore, the diagnosis and management must be carefully given and use multifaced approaches by multidisciplinary teams.

The Special Issue aims to provide an updated panorama of the current knowledge and different approaches of various healthcare professionals to optimize treatment in orofacial pain patients.

Dr. Pessia Friedman-Rubin
Dr. Yaron Haviv
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • orofacial pain
  • pain medicine
  • pain assesment
  • temporomandibular disorders
  • physiotherapy
  • biopsychological
  • bruxism
  • Dc/TMD
  • chronic and acute orofacial pain
  • musculoskeletal disorders

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Unveiling Neurovascular Orofacial Pain: An Underdiagnosed Form of Chronic Orofacial Pain
by Yaron Haviv
Healthcare 2023, 11(12), 1722; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11121722 - 12 Jun 2023
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Neurovascular orofacial pain (NVOP) is a relatively rare type of facial pain syndrome that shares similarities with migraine, orofacial migraine, and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs) [...] Full article
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Exploring the Effect of Ethnicity on Chronic Orofacial Pain: A Comparative Study of Jewish and Arab Israeli Patients
by Robert Yanko, Yaara Badran, Shirley Leibovitz, Yair Sharav, Yuval Vered, Naama Keshet, Andra Rettman, Doron J. Aframian and Yaron Haviv
Healthcare 2023, 11(14), 1984; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11141984 - 8 Jul 2023
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The relationship between ethnicity and chronic pain has been studied worldwide. The population of Israel includes two main ethnic groups, 75% Jews and 21% Arabs. The purpose of this study was to compare orofacial chronic pain characteristics and treatment outcomes between Jewish and [...] Read more.
The relationship between ethnicity and chronic pain has been studied worldwide. The population of Israel includes two main ethnic groups, 75% Jews and 21% Arabs. The purpose of this study was to compare orofacial chronic pain characteristics and treatment outcomes between Jewish and Arab Israeli citizens. Two hundred patients admitted to the Orofacial Pain Clinic at Hebrew University–Hadassah School of Dental Medicine between 2017 and 2022 were selected randomly for this historical cohort study. Our cohort included 159 (79.5%) Jews and 41 (20.5%) Arabs. Twenty-six pain-related variables were compared of which only two differed significantly between the two groups, awakening due to pain and mean muscle sensitivity; both indicators were higher in the Arab group (p < 0.05). No differences were found in any of the other variables such as diagnosis, pain severity, onset, and treatment outcome. This minimal difference may be explained by the equal accessibility to medical services for all citizens, and the diversity of our staff that includes Jew as well as Arab service providers. These factors minimize or even eliminate racial bias, language, and cultural barriers, and is reflected in the minor differences in orofacial pain characteristics found between the two main ethnic groups in Israel. Full article
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Patterns of Third-Molar-Pericoronitis-Related Pain: A Morphometrical Observational Retrospective Study
by Dafne Chisci, Stefano Parrini, Nicola Baldini and Glauco Chisci
Healthcare 2023, 11(13), 1890; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11131890 - 30 Jun 2023
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Background: Mandibular third molar (M3M) removal and the management of postoperative complications represent a common matter of interest in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Pain represents a great symptom for patients affected by pericoronitis and it is the most common indication for third molar [...] Read more.
Background: Mandibular third molar (M3M) removal and the management of postoperative complications represent a common matter of interest in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Pain represents a great symptom for patients affected by pericoronitis and it is the most common indication for third molar removal. The aim of the present article is to search for patterns of pre-operative pain in patients before undergoing third molar surgery and to test for a relation between some patterns of symptoms, such as pain intensity, site of symptomatic tooth, and referred area of pain. Methods: This retrospective observational study enrolled a total of 86 patients, aged (mean ± SD) 34.54 ± 13.62 years (range 17–78 years), scheduled for outpatient third molar extraction at the Oral Surgery School, Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Policlinico “Le Scotte”, University of Siena. Pericoronitis and pain were the symptoms of the patients and the indication of extraction. Inclusion criteria were the presence of partially impacted third molars, confirmed with a preoperative panoramic radiograph, and preoperative pain. Exclusion criteria were known neurological disease (such as previous trigeminal or facial nerve injuries), impaired communicative or cognitive disease, diagnosed diabetes mellitus, and oral surgical intervention within 30 days before data collection. Patients were visited and asked to answer a morphometric analytic questionnaire about their perception of pain referred to the third molar. Analyses were performed on statistical evaluation on age, age ranges, patient gender, prior third molar extraction, site of pericoronitis, pain score (1–10), and pain area. Two-tailed p values of less than 0.05 were considered significant if not otherwise specified. Results: No correlations were found between age, gender, previous extraction, tooth site (maxillar on mandible), pain score, and pain area. Patterns of third molar pericoronitis pain among 86 patients were reported. A significant correlation was found between pain score and pain area (p = 0.0111, rs = 0.3131). Conclusions: Pain intensity has indeed some kind of responsibility in determining the orofacial distribution of pain. The pain area referral patterns of the present article could be considered as a pain model resulting from the pericoronitis of maxillar and mandibular third molars. Full article
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