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Optimal Pain Management for the Dental Team

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Editors:
  1. Tara Renton

    1. Department of Oral Surgery, King’s College London, London, UK

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  • Provides optimal guide to pain and anxiety management in the dental patient
  • Written by leading experts in the field
  • Discusses dentine sensitivity, hypersensitivity and cracked tooth syndrome

Part of the book series: BDJ Clinician’s Guides (BDJCG)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Tara Renton

About the editor

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. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Optimal Pain Management for the Dental Team

  • Editors: Tara Renton

  • Series Title: BDJ Clinician’s Guides

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86634-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86633-4Published: 01 February 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86636-5Published: 02 February 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86634-1Published: 31 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2523-3327

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-3335

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 163

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Dentistry, Pain Medicine

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