Psychosomatic Medicine in the Field of Dentistry

Psychosomatic problems in dentistry.

Many dental patients complain of oral symptoms after dental treatment, such as chronic pain or occlusal discomfort, for which the cause remains undetermined. These symptoms are often thought to be mental or emotional in origin, and patients are considered to have an "oral psychosomatic disorder". Representative medically unexplained oral symptoms/syndromes (MUOS) include burning mouth syndrome,...

Psychosomatic medicine: The art of coping and salutogenesis

Although the term psychosomatic is used in a wide range of contexts – from media to clinics – no exact definition of the term exists that even practitioners and experts of different schools in this domain agreed on. This may be due to its intertidisciplinary, multisystemic, and evolutionary nature. Psychosomatic medicine is an approach to health which deals with the beliefs, narratives, relatio...

Psychosomatic Medicine

Inhere is still a lack of agreement about basic concepts in this field. The name 'tself is unfortunate, since it tends to perpetuate dualistic thinking of the "ghost ?n the machine" type.

Psychosomatic Medicine

Sketches in Psychosomatic Medicine

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