The year 2013-2014 has been designated the Global Year Against Orofacial Pain by the International Association for the Study of Pain. Accordingly, a multidisciplinary Canadian and international group of clinical, research and knowledge-transfer experts attended a workshop in Montreal, Quebec. The workshop had two aims: to identify new pathways for innovative diagnosis and management of chronic ...

Pain in the oral and craniofacial system represents a major medical and social problem. Indeed, a U.S. Surgeon General’s report on orofacial health concludes that, ‘‘. . .oral health means much more than healthy teeth. It means being free of chronic oral-facial pain conditions. . .’’ [172]. Community-based surveys indicate that many subjects commonly report pain in the orofacial region, with es...

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is characterised by granulomatous necrotising inflammatory lesions of the upper and lower respiratory tract, often associated with pauci-immune glomerulonephritis. The diagnosis of granulomatosis with polyangiitis is made according to the classification criteria of the ACR criteria for granulomatosis with polyangiitis. We present two cases of granulomatosi...

BACKGROUND Currently, orofacial sequelae are recognized as very influential on the quality-of-life for a victim of orofacial damage. Therefore, correct forensic assessment for indenisation purposes is mandatory. However, orofacial damage is frequently reduced to organic components, which results in a forensic assessment process, which are inadequate. This study aims to improve the orofacial dam...

wegener’s granulomatosis is a necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis involving small and medium sized vessels. the syndrome is classically defined as having involvement of kidney, lungs and upper respiratory tract (i.e. sinuses). wegener’s granulomatosis may be present in other autoimmune or inflammatory diseases, particulary systemic lupus erythematosis (sle), but most frequently has been associ...

INTRODUCTION Accurate evaluation of disease status is very important in treatment of Wegener's granulomatosis CASE PRESENTATION A 73-year-old Japanese man presented with chronic sinusitis and otitis media. He was admitted to our hospital because of bilateral lung nodules. Cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody was negative but his rheumatoid factor was high. He was diagnosed with lim...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke is an uncommon sequela of Wegener's granulomatosis, resulting primarily from vasculitic infiltration of small to medium-sized vessels. We describe a young patient with Wegener's granulomatosis and basilar artery occlusion. CASE DESCRIPTION A 26-year-old man with histopathologically confirmed Wegener's granulomatosis suffered a brain stem stroke 24 hours after ope...

Introduction: Long-term levodopa treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is frequently complicated by spontaneously occurring involuntary muscle movements called dyskinesia. The exact pathological mechanism of this complication has not yet been elucidated. We have previously demonstrated that in PD patients the vulnerability to develop peripheral but not orofacial dyskinesia is associated w...

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Intravenous injection of powdered tablets intended to oral use is a common practice among drug abusers, given the greater effectiveness attributed to accelerate delivery of the drug through this route compared to oral intake. This can result in both acute and chronic changes in the pulmonary vessels and parenchyma. Various terms have been used to describe this entity and include self-induced pu...