Orofacial Disorders, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Current Therapies in Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine

This cutting-edge book is a quick reference guide to the evidence-based evaluation, diagnosis, and management of the broad spectrum of orofacial disorders. Each chapter is devoted to a particular disease or disorder and presents advances in our understanding of the condition, the most recent evaluation and diagnostic strategies, and up-to-date treatment approaches. In addition, strategies for integration of care into routine dental practice are explained, and information provided on how to comprehensively diagnose and manage orofacial disorders. The coverage encompasses the latest technological advances in the field, such as novel pharmaceuticals, diagnostic tools, gene transfer techniques, radiotherapy modalities, and a vast array of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches including complementary and alternative therapies for orofacial disorders.Although the management of orofacial disorders is emerging as a distinct field of dentistry,many dentists and physicians are unfamiliar with recent advances in the care of patients with these disorders including orofacial pain, oral lesions and cancer, malodor, xerostomia, obstructive sleep apnea, bruxism and oral parafunctional behaviors, temporomandibular disorders, occlusal dysesthesias, orofacial neuropathic pains, and headaches. This book, written by world class experts, is deliberately geared to the level of understanding of a clinician. It will serve as an ideal evidence-based reference and source of specific clinical recommendations in daily practice.

Oral Cancer and Pre-malignant Lesions: Leukoplakia.- Etiology and Complications of Oral Cancer.- Orofacial Pain in Cancer Patients: Mechanisms and Management. Oral Mucosal Disease: Herpes Simplex.- Vesiculo- Bullous Lesions.- Candidiasis. Orofacial Disorders: Diagnosis and Management of Oral Parafunctional Behaviors.- Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Apnea and Snoring.- Neurosensory Disorders.- Diagnosis and Management of Malodor.- Orofacial Dystonias and Dyskinesias. Salivary Gland Dysfunction and Xeros: Etiology and Clinical Manifestations of Salivary Disorders.- Gene Transfer for Salivary Glands.- Treatment of Salivary Dysfunction in Aging Adults. Temporomandibular Disorders: Temporomandibular Joint Disorders.- Temporomandibular Muscle Disorders. Orofacial Pain Disorders: Diagnosis and Management of Non-dental tooth pain.- Diagnosis and Management of Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain and Orofacial Neuralgias.- Diagnosis and Management of Burning Mouth. Headache Management: Chronic Daily Headache.- Migraine.- Cluster and Facial Headache.- Migraine Variants. Complementary and Interdisciplinary Approaches in Personalized Pain Care: Interdisciplinary Orofacial Pain Management.- Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches in Pain Care.- Conducting a standard history and physical examination for Orofacial Disorders.- Personalized Care and Current Controversies in Orofacial Disorders.

João Nuno Andrade Requicha Ferreira, DDS, MS, PhD, is the Deputy Clinical Coordinator of the TMD/Orofacial Pain Clinic at Singapore’s National University Hospital, and an Assistant Professor and Senior Registrar at the Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore. In 2014, he has started the first multi- and inter-disciplinary Orofacial Pain Clinic in Singapore that is focused on state-of-the-art clinical management, research, and undergraduate and postgraduate training programs in orofacial pain. He was a previous clinical research fellow at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) at the US National Institutes of Health, and a consultant at the NIDCR’s TMJ Implant Registry and Repository, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, USA. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain, and the past-president of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Neuroscience Scientific Group as well as of the Integrated Clinical and Applied Biomedical Sciences Section (formerly Oral Biology) of the American Dental Education Association.

James R. Fricton, BS, DDS, MS, is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Public Health. He is also Senior Research Investigator for HealthPartners Institute and a pain specialist in the Minnesota Head and Neck Pain Clinic. Dr. Fricton has 30 years of full-time research, teaching, and clinical care, with a focus on temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and orofacial pain. His recent research has been on the development of on-line tools for improving teaching and care for chronic pain including his on-line course on preventing chronic pain at Coursera. He established one of the first interdisciplinary pain clinics and postgraduate training programs in TMD and orofacial pain. His past teaching and research has resulted in 5 textbooks and over 200 publications and abstracts. He served as President of the Ame