• Shinpei Matsuda, Hayato Itoi, Takashi Ryoke, and Hitoshi Yoshimura.
• Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Unit of Sensory and Locomotor Medicine, Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Fukui Fukui Japan.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Nov 11; 101 (45): e31727e31727.

AbstractPain is the most common complaint in the dental field and may have a significant impact on the patients' quality of life. However, objective pain assessment is sometimes difficult, and medical and dental clinicians may encounter cases of pain in the head and neck region, making it difficult to establish differential diagnoses. This study aimed to review acute pain in clinical dentistry at each phase of dental procedures and discuss the current status and issues in the development of acute dental pain assessment methods in the future. Acute pain in clinical dentistry may differ in nature and modifying conditions of pain at each stage: before dental procedures, while visiting dentists, and during and after dental procedures. They are related to actual or potential tissue damage, and may be modified and aided by personal experiences, including psychological and social factors. With respect to the aging and multinational population and pandemic of infectious diseases, significant breakthroughs in the development of new pain scales without verbal descriptions are desirable. Furthermore, it is expected that a new pain scale that can be applied to acute pain in the head and neck regions, including the oral cavity, will be developed.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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