Table 1.
Condition | Definition |
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Oro‐facial pain (OFP) | Oro‐facial pain refers to pain associated with the hard and soft tissues of the head, face and neck. These tissues, whether skin, blood vessels, teeth, glands or muscles, send impulses through the trigeminal nerve to be interpreted as pain by the brain circuits that are primarily responsible for the processing that controls complex behaviour. The complaint of OFP encompasses a diagnostic range from neurogenic, musculoskeletal, and psychophysiological pathology to headaches, cancer, autoimmune phenomenon, and tissue trauma (de Leeuw & Klasser16) |
Oral moistening disorders |
Oral moistening disorders can be divided in having too little or too much saliva, respectively, yielding oral dryness and oral wetness
(Lobbezoo et al13; Wolff et al25; Löfgren et al27; Moore & Guggenheimer78; Hopcraft & Tan26; Boyce & Bakheet79) |
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) |
Gastroesophageal reflux disease is defined, in the so‐called Montreal definition and classification, as a condition that develops when the reflux of stomach contents causes troublesome symptoms and/or complications The disease was subclassified into esophageal and extra‐esophageal syndromes, and the recognition of laryngitis, cough, asthma, and chemical intrinsic tooth wear as possible GERD syndromes (Vakil et al80) |
Sleep‐related breathing disorders |
Sleep‐related breathing disorders include snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS)
(Deary et al46; American Academy of Sleep Medicine Task Force, Sleep45) |
Mandibular movement disorders |
Mandibular movement disorders include oromandibular dystonias, oro‐facial dyskinesias, sleep bruxism, and awake bruxism
(Lobbezoo et al56) |