Optimal Pain Management for the Dental Team

Intro to Pain.- The Psychology Theories of Pain.- Psychological Interventions for Persistent Pain.- An Overview of Dental Anxiety and its Non-Medical Management.- Medical Management of Anxiety.- Perioperative Pain Management of the Dental Patient.- Optimal Local Anaesthesia for Dentistry.- Temporomandibular Disorder for the General Dental Practitioner.- Chronic Pain and Overview or Differential Diagnoses of Non-Odontogenic Orofacial Pain.- Dental Pain: Dentine Sensitivity, Hypersensitivity and Cracked Tooth Syndrome.

This book is a concise guide to the correct diagnosis and management of dental pain and anxiety. It covers psychology theories about pain, dentine sensitivity, hypersensitivity and cracked tooth syndrome. Chronic pain, temporomandibular disorders and local anesthesia are discussed, and optimal medical and perioperative pain management explained. The book is written by leading experts in the field and provides an up to date, pragmatic perspective on optimizing pain and anxiety management in the dental patient. It includes an overview of differential diagnoses of non-odontogenic orofacial pain. As well as meeting the needs of dentists, the book will be a “must read” for whole dental team.

Contributor Bio(s)

Tara Renton, PhD, is a dentist with a particular interest in trigeminal nerve injuries and pain. After completing her Oral and Maxillofacial surgical training in Melbourne in 1991, Tara undertook a PhD in Trigeminal Nerve injury at KCL 1999-2003. She was later appointed Senior Lecturer at QMUL and then was awarded her chair in 2006 at King's College London. From 2006-2015 Tara led the teaching of dental students modernising the Oral Surgical teaching with minimal access approach and modern LA techniques. She has established an academic oral surgery training programme for Academic Oral Surgery SpRs and has supervised 7 PhDs. In collaboration with IoPPN KCL and Imperial College Tara has established an international leading programme of trigeminal nerve injury and orofacial pain research. She leads the Kings Health Partners Orofacial Pain Service seeing over 2K OFP patients a year.