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Pain and the Quality of Life in Patients Referred to a Craniofacial Pain Unit
1Community Dental Health Setvices Research Unit, University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2Craniofacial Pain Research Unit, Departrnent of Dentistry, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3Oraniofacial Pain Research Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4Medical Research Council Group in Periodontal Physiology, University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry, Toronto, Ontano, Canada
*Corresponding Author(s): David Locker E-mail:
Although there are reasons to believe that temporomandibular disorders and other facial pain conditions would have a major impact on the quality of patients' lives, only a small number of studies have attempted to address this in a systematic way. In this study, data on pain and its consequences were assessed for 121 patients making their first visit to a craniofacial pain research unit. The extent to which musculoskeletal and neurologically based facial pain compromised the quality of life was measured using the Oral Health Impact Profile, a recently developed index of the functional and psychosocial outcomes of oral conditions. The data indicated that facial pain had a substantial impact on daily life and that its most common outcomes were psychologic. When compared with a nonpain population, the extent of this impact was striking. There was a four-fold increase in functional problems such as difficulty chewing foods and a nine-fold increase in reports of depression. As anticipated, scores on the Oral Health Impact Profile were associated with the characteristics of the pain and diagnostic subgroups.
facial pain; quality of life
Heather Murray,David Locker,David Mock,Howard C. Tenenbaum. Pain and the Quality of Life in Patients Referred to a Craniofacial Pain Unit. Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache. 1996. 10(4);316-323.
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