BDS · Oral Medicine / Oral Surgery · TOPIC 14 TMJ Disorders & Orofacial Pain From clicking joints and tender masseters to electric-shock facial pain — sorting articular from muscular, primary headache from neuralgia, and choosing splint, arthrocentesis or carbamazepine The temporomandibular joint sits at the busiest crossroads in the head — every word, swallow, yawn and chew loads it, and pain in the pre-auricular region is the third most common chronic pain complaint after headache and back pain. Yet the catch for the dentist is that most patients who walk in pointing at their ear or…
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