Dealing With Oral Neuropathies and Trigeminal Neuralgia

Dealing With Oral Neuropathies and Trigeminal Neuralgia is organized by Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of University of Southern California (USC) and will be held on Oct 18, 2019 at Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7 Continuing Education Credits.

SYNOPSIS:
This course focuses on Chronic Orofacial Pain (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. Lectures will also focus on the appropriate pharmacologic, behavioural, surgical, and physical medicine management procedures for these conditions.

This course will cover the medications used to treat chronic orofacial pain, including neurogenic, musculoskeletal, headache and uncommon pain disorders. To be able to treat patients with these problems, dentists must understand the underlying mechanisms of pain transmission, nerve injury and repair, sensitization, sympathetic pain maintenance and spontaneous ectopic pain generation.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
• Chronic orofacial pains (neuralgias, neuromas and neuropathies of the trigeminal nerve).
• Pain disorders which mimic Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) and cause orofacial pain.
• Neurology for the novice.
• Medications commonly used for 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 diseases.
• Be able to conduct a differential diagnosis of neurogenous and disorders.
• Know the current therapies used for these problems.
• Be familiar with the latest medications used for managing neurogenous pain.
• Know how to make stents, perform intramuscular injections, and conduct a myofascial examination.
• Medications used in dentistry and the Law: What can be prescribed and what not?
• 10 Top medications used in an OFP Specific Treatment Center.
• Metabolism of medications including liver enzymes systems.
• 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).

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.