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Causes of orofacial pain in patients visiting oral medicine department of PDC
4th Asia Pacific Congress & Expo on Dental and Oral Health
July 27-29, 2015 Brisbane, Australia

Javed A Qazi

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

Introduction: Orofacial pain is one of the most frequent reasons for the patient to visit Oral Medicine clinic. The orofacial pain has two components: Orodental and facial. Orodental pain occurs in the area under the orbitomeatal line in oral cavity, above the neck and in front of ears, while facial pain occurs in the rest of the area of the head and neck region. Among the orofacial pain, pulpitis is the most common while gingivitis is the second most common pain. Aims: The study was done to determine the common cause of orofacial pain among the patient who reported the oral diagnostic sciences and oral medicine department of PDC. Methodology: Cross sectional study was done by convenient sampling technique. Total of 318 patients were studied. The data was recorded in separate proforma and was entered in SPSS version 16. Analysis was done to determine the frequency & percentage of all common causes of orofacial pain. Results: Out of 318 patients, 151 (47.5%) were male and 167(52.5%) were females. The patients reporting pulpitis were 192 (60.3%). In males more common cause was pulpitis 92 (61%) followed by gingivitis 16 (11%), TMD 7 (5%), periapical infection 11 (7%) and Neuropathic pain 6 (4%) while psychogenic 4 (2%). Among the females the common cause was pulpitis 100 (60%) followed by gingivitis 20 (12%), TMD 18 (11%), periapical infection 9 (5%) and psychogenic pain 6 (4%) Neuropathic pain 4 (2%). Gingivitis was the 2nd most common cause of orofacial pain, neuropathic pain was most commonly observed in 4th-5th decade. While psychogenic pain was most common in female in their 6th decade of life. Conclusion: It was concluded that the most common cause of Orofacial pain in both sexes was pulpitis while Neuropathic pain was common in male and psychogenic pain was common in female.

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