Optimal Pain Management for the Dental Team

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction to Pain

   • Tara Renton

   Pages 1-8

3. Dental Pain: Dentine Sensitivity, Hypersensitivity and Cracked Tooth Syndrome

   • Nicholas Neil Longridge, Callum Cormack Youngson

   Pages 9-23

4. Chronic Pain and Overview and Differential Diagnoses of Non-odontogenic Orofacial Pain

   • Tara Renton

   Pages 25-47

5. Psychological Theories of Pain

   • Chris Penlington, Monika Urbanek, Sarah Barker

   Pages 49-59

6. Psychological Interventions for Persistent Orofacial Pain

   • Sarah Barker, Monika Urbanek, Chris Penlington

   Pages 61-68

7. An Overview of Dental Anxiety and the Non-pharmacological Management of Dental Anxiety

   • Jennifer Hare, Geanina Bruj-Milasan, Tim Newton

   Pages 69-77

8. Medical Management of Dental Anxiety

   • Paul Coulthard

   Pages 79-87

9. Perioperative Surgical Pain Management

   • Nadine Khawaja

   Pages 89-100

10. Optimal Local Anaesthesia for Dentistry

    • Tara Renton

    Pages 101-121

11. Temporomandibular Disorders for the General Dental Practitioner

    • Emma Beecroft, Chris Penlington, Hannah Desai, Justin Durham

    Pages 123-139

12. An Update on Headaches for the Dental Team

    • P. Chana, Tara Renton

    Pages 141-152

13. Rhinosinusitis Update

    • Claire Hopkins

    Pages 153-163

14. Correction to: Optimal Pain Management for the Dental Team

    • Tara Renton

    Pages C1-C1

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.

• Dental pain
• Toothache
• Acute and chronic pain
• Local anaesthesia in dentistry
• Pain psychology for dentists
• BDJ
• BDA
• British dental association

• Department of Oral Surgery, King’s College London, London, UK

  Tara Renton

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.