Orofacial Pain : When, How And What to Prescribe 2017

Orofacial Pain : When, How And What to Prescribe is organized by Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC and would be held on Oct 20, 2017 at Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States Of America. The Target Audience for this medical event is basically for Dentists. This CME conference has been approved with 7 Continuing Education Credits.

This course focuses on Chronic Orofacial Pain (OFP) and headaches (e.g. Neuropathic Pain, Neurovascular Pain, Neuralgia, Neuritis and Neuroma). It reviews underlying mechanisms of pain induction, nerve injury and repair, sensitization and spontaneous ectopic pain generation. Lectures include an explanation of how various analgesic blocks and sensory testing procedures, in combination with historical information, produce a differential diagnosis of neurogenous and headache pain. Lectures will also focus on the appropriate pharmacologic, behavioural, surgical, and physical medicine manage- ment procedures for these conditions. Finally, real patient cases will be presented with the goal of helping the attendee become more comfortable in diagnosing and treating OFP disorders and providing a new understanding of chronic pain.

Topics To Be Covered :
• Chronic orofacial pains (neuralgias, neuromas and neuropathies of the trigeminal nerve)
• Headache disorders which mimic Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) and cause orofacial pain
• Neurology for the novice
• New medications used for pain
• Examination methods for chronic pain
• Issues of California drug law, the DEA/DOJ and using off-label prescriptions
• Advances in pharmaco-gentics as a way of predicting drug to drug interactions and adverse drugs reactions
• Treatment of chronic pain using behavioral, physical and surgical therapies
• Use of an electronic medical record and automated computer-patient interface for medical documentation
• PDA-based drug program
• Pain diary and pain treatment agreements in dental practice
• Know the neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and pathobiology of the trigeminal nociceptive system
• Understand neurogenous and neurovascular diseases
• Non-pharmacologic therapies for OFP
• Pharmacogenetics and medication efficacy
• Current approaches for treating non-malignant chronic orofacial pain
• How to conduct a myofascial examination
• How to perform therapeutic injections (trigger point, botulinum toxin and corticosteroid