In this new edition, the authors place a focus on presenting clinical features and outlining treatment strategies, and the clinical case reports offer insight into the complexity of orofacial pain diagnosis and management. Because pharmacotherapy remains the primary treatment for most craniofacial pain, two chapters detail the pharmacology, efficacy, and side effects of commonly used drugs, although treatment options for neurosurgical and complementary and alternative medicine are also included. Finally, a new chapter addressing facial pain, headache, and sleep provides much-needed insight to this often-overlooked topic. The authors weave an impressive body of scientific evidence with solid clinical experience to provide a timely and instructive addition to the pain literature.

Author Information

Yair Sharav DMD, MS is professor of Oral Medicine. Presently Director of the Hebrew University Center for Research on Pain, and head of orofacial pain clinic. Graduate of Hebrew University (DMD) and the University of Illinios, Chicago (MS). He is a former chairman of Department of Oral Diagnosis, Oral Medicine and Radiology and is a past Dean of Dental Faculty in Jerusalem. He was visiting scientist at NIH and visiting professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Sharav established the first orofacial pain clinic in Israel (1974).

Rafael Benoliel BDS is Associate Dean for Research and the Director at the Center for Orofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorders at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine. Dr Benoliel completed his dental training with honors and distinction at the University of London, in the United Kingdom. Following 2 years of training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery he moved to Israel, to the Dental Faculty at Hadassah- the Hebrew University. He completed formal, state recognized, Oral Medicine training and subsequently concentrated on orofacial pain. His training in orofacial pain was under the mentorship of Dr Yair Sharav. In 1997-1998 he served as Research Associate at the Unit of Neuronal Gene Expression at the NIDCR, NIH, Bethesda under the tutorship of Dr Michael Iadarola. During 2003-2010 Dr. Benoliel served as Chair of the Department of Oral Medicine, in the Dental Faculty at Hadassah-Hebrew University. He joined the Dental School at Rutgers in June 2013.

Table of Contents

1. The Diagnostic Process
2. Anatomy and Neurophysiology of Orofacial Pain
3. Measuring and Assessing Pain
4. Psychologic Aspects of Chronic Orofacial Pain
5. Orofacial Pain, Headache, and Sleep
6. Acute Orofacial Pain
7. Otolaryngological Aspects of Orofacial Pain
8. Myalgia, Myofascial Pain, Tension-Type Headaches, and Fibromyalgia
9. Pain and Dysfunction of the Temporomandibular Joint
10. Migraine and Possible Facial Variants: Neurovascular Orofacial Pain
11. The Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias
12. Neuropathic Orofacial Pain
13. Neurosurgical Aspects of Orofacial Pain
14. Secondary Orofacial Pain and Headache: Systemic Diseases, Tumors, and Trauma
15. Pharmacotherapy for Acute Orofacial Pain
16. Pharmacotherapy for Chronic Orofacial Pain
17. Complementary and Alternative Medicine