Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache

Print ISSN: 2333-0384 | Online ISSN: 2333-0376

Official journal of American Academy of Orofacial Pain (AAOP).

Founded upon sound scientific principles, this journal continues to make important contributions that strongly influence the work of dental and medical professionals involved in treating oral and facial pain, including temporomandibular disorders, and headache. In addition to providing timely scientific research and clinical articles, the journal presents diagnostic techniques and treatment therapies for oral and facial pain, headache, mandibular dysfunction, and occlusion and covers pharmacology, physical therapy, surgery, and other pain-management methods.


Articles

Open Access

Prevalence of orofacial and head pain: an umbrella review of systematic reviews

André Luís Porporatti,Ângela Graciela Deliga Schroder,Ashley Lebel,Nathan Moreau,Charlotte Guillouet,José Stechman-Neto,Yves Boucher

DOI: 10.22514/jofph.2024.022

Abstract ( 1103 ) PDF (12.56 MB) ( 166 ) Full Text

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Autonomic features of craniofacial neuralgias: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Davis C Thomas,Priyanka Kodaganallur Pitchumani,Abdul Basir Barmak,Sandeep Talluri,Weiran Jiang

DOI: 10.22514/jofph.2024.023

Abstract ( 697 ) PDF (6.22 MB) ( 85 ) Full Text

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Trigeminal neuralgia: therapeutic strategies to restore quality of life

Diego Villegas Díaz,Gabriela Guerrero Alvarado,Alan López Medina,José Francisco Gómez Clavel,Alejandro García Muñoz

DOI: 10.22514/jofph.2024.024

Abstract ( 910 ) PDF (213.36 kB) ( 144 ) Full Text

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Various topical drug combination assessed using a neurosensory stent for chronic intraoral neuropathic pain: a pilot study

Yair Sharav,Yuval Shalit,Rakefet Czerninski,Shirley Leibowiz,Doron J Aframian,Yaron Haviv

DOI: 10.22514/jofph.2024.025

Abstract ( 705 ) PDF (2.75 MB) ( 111 ) Full Text

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The associations of the diagnostic criterion pain modified by function with functional limitation and behavioral frequency

Rayan Alsuwailem,Heidi Crow,Yoly Gonzalez,Willard D. McCall,Richard Ohrbach

DOI: 10.22514/jofph.2024.026

Abstract ( 710 ) PDF (6.99 MB) ( 76 ) Full Text

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Prevalence of self-medication among university students diagnosed with temporomandibular disorders

Stefany Joaquina Sousa Farias,Alexia Guimarães Ramos,Evelyn Mikaela Kogawa,Erica Negrini Lia,Rodrigo Antonio de Medeiros

DOI: 10.22514/jofph.2024.027

Abstract ( 643 ) PDF (224.18 kB) ( 109 ) Full Text

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Abstracts of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain (AAOP) 48th Scientific Meeting

AAOP 48th Scientific Meeting Organizing Committee

DOI: 10.22514/jofph.2024.032

Abstract ( 712 ) PDF (1.91 MB) ( 78 ) Full Text

Published Ahead of Print

Open Access

Orofacial migraine and neurovascular orofacial pain—new insights into characteristics and classification

Shimrit Heiliczer,Yair Sharav,Rafael Benoliel,Yaron Haviv

Online publish date: 19 November 2024

DOI: 10.22514/jofph.2024.033

Abstract ( 316 ) PDF (530.42 kB) ( 34 ) Full Text

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Editor-in-Chief


Dr. Rafael Benoliel, BDS

Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Professor Benoliel’s last appointment was at the Sourasky Medical Center as Chair of the Unit for Oral Medicine which he established (2022-2023). Currently he is involved in collaborative research with the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine and the Eastman Dental Institute (as Adjunct Professor in Rochester University) and manages a private Face and Head Pain Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Previously he was the Associate Dean for Research and director of the Center for Orofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorders at the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (2013-2021). Dr Benoliel served as a faculty member at The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine (1984-2013), where he was appointed Professor and chair of the Department of Oral Medicine (2003-2012). He served as research associate in the Unit of Neuronal Gene Expression at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (1997-1998). Dr Benoliel has published extensively on the subject of orofacial pain and headache; lectures extensively at national and international meetings; serves as Associate Editor for Cephalalgia (the leading headache journal) as well as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Oral and Facial Pain & Headache. He is co-editor of the highly commended textbook “Orofacial Pain and Headache”, now in the process of a 3rd edition. He has served on many important scientific committees including the Classification Committee of the International Headache Society, the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders, the IASP WHO Chronic Pain classification committee for ICD-11 and led the team that recently published the first International Classification for Orofacial Pain.