PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONIC OROFACIAL PAIN

Pain is one of the most common symptoms encountered in clinical practice and the head is a frequent site of pain. Chronic Orofacial Pain (COP) represents a complex pain condition with an etiology comprised of many factors including those falling within biological, psychological, and social domains. Psychogenic regional pain is a term used for “pain that patients feel in a region of the body where no peripheral cause can be found and is psychogenic in its evocation”. Even in the field of psychology/psychiatry, many aetiologies and psychodynamics have been related to the development of psychogenic pain. This article deals with the treatment modalities to deal with the psychological repercussions of physical, orofacial pain.